Upon2020 (archive)
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How will cyber criminals make a buck once we have pervasive digital identity on the internet?
I proposed the following topic: Let’s role play as aspiring cyber criminals, 10 years from now, when there’s a ubiquitous digital identity layer that is part of all digital interactions over the internet. How do we make a buck or a billion? for dinner conversation at the upcoming Harvard/Berkman conference on digital identity. Apparently they…
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The Challenges of Open Data — example: Digital Identity
Last week, I posted about why forcing identity data into name-value pairs is an architectural dead end. Of the many comments that I received, those from Phil Hunt and Mark Wilcox, in particular, turned out to warrant a much more detailed response than I initially thought. I realized that they are raising a much broader…
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Guardian quotes Wendy Hall: URLs instead of National Insurance Number
According to Wendy Hall, a longstanding colleague of Berners-Lee.., the babies of the future, for example, will have a web address instead of a National Insurance Number. Hall said: ‘I have a vision that in the future when a baby is born you’ll get some sort of internet ID that is effectively your digital persona,…
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WEF Meeting protected by halted sea traffic, naval aircraft and ships
I won’t go this year, but invited I was. Today I’m reading that for the World Economic Forum meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh, which will open on Saturday, …the Egyptians have deployed naval aircraft and ships from the Suez Canal to guard the Red Sea resort… Egyptian security has closed jetties and moved divers’ boats out…
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Verisign announces Yadis-based identity provider
Verisign’s Michael Graves writes: You’re invited to visit and try out a beta version of an identity service we’ve provided. It’s called the VeriSign Personal Identity Provider (“PIP” for short), and you can find it at http://pip.verisignlabs.com. This is great news for the URL-based identity community, because of the market clout that Verisign has in…