This post is prompted by T.Rob’s recent post “We’re gonna need a bigger crowd” where, among other things, he talks about X.509 certificate security. I agree with the core point of his post – crowd-sourcing is ineffective for highly specialized subjects – but this X.509 subject keeps coming up. It …
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, …
Here’s an outline for how this problem could be solved. Note that this is only about “archived”, “backed-up” versions of the data, …