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Why End-to-End Security is Important
The Telegraph reports: …hundreds of chip and pin machines in stores and supermarkets across Europe have been tampered with to allow details of shoppers’ credit card accounts to be relayed to overseas fraudsters. These details are then used to make cash withdrawals or siphon off money from card holders’ accounts in what is one of…
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Yahoo!’s OpenID Usability Research
Allen Tom of Yahoo! announced that results of their OpenID usability studies are available. It’s great to see them do that — both doing the study, and releasing the results. Google did something similar earlier. Are the results depressing? Personally, I don’t think so: instead, they are a call to action. Let’s get our hands…
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Doing a Google Image Search on Myself — Oh No
This is just too funny. It’s mostly James McGovern‘s fault I think … look at the images from duckdown.blogspot.com below.) In-lined for your amusement: One could think I have rather refined political opinions, but I usually don’t blog about those…
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Seems the Liberty Commons Merger Failed?
And the accusations are flying. Kaliya today announced that the representatives of the Identity Commons in the Liberty Alliance-initiated talks about a new, joint identity organization are withdrawing. She said: We (Mary, Kaliya, Drummond) do not believe the proposed organization accomplishes the goals Identity Commons was formed to achieve. We do not see how we…
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Japan’s Largest Social Network Adopts OpenID (via Nat)
Nat Sakimura, tireless OpenID promoter in Japan and initiator of the OpenID Foundation’s Japan chapter, writes: The largest Japanese SNS, Mixi, started to offer OpenID as of today. This great news comes on the heels of the MySpace OpenID announcement. Other social networks can’t be far behind? He quotes Mixi’s CEO who summarized OpenID advantages…