When deciding to become an engineer, I’d never have thought just how broadly one can get involved in things beside making cool new stuff: I’ll be one of the panelists in a high-powered debate organized by Concord Law School at Quadrus in Palo Alto, on Saturday, June 8th. The debate …
This week, I had the honor to give the intro presentation on Personal Clouds at the Internet Identity Workshop. Dan Blum, previously Distinguished Analyst at Gartner and now with Respect Network, joined me in the second part. We had a packed room, and the audience reception was incredibly positive. It …
I played a bit with Mozilla’s foray into digital identity, Persona. It’s integrated nicely into OpenPhotoTrovebox, a great open-source photo publishing app, and Persona works really well with. Very smooth and elegant. But: Persona’s #1 selling feature is privacy. Unlike most other identity technologies (e.g. OpenID), Persona does not tell …
Here’s an outline for how this problem could be solved. Note that this is only about “archived”, “backed-up” versions of the data, …
Further thoughts on this problem. It appears that my different digital assets should be managed using different protection levels. Examples: I don’t …