Upon2020 (archive)
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Marcus Povey and PGP-based login
Marcus Povey is proposing to use PGP/GPG to log into personal websites such as Known. Where have I heard this before? ;-) Oh, yes, LID, circa 2005, before OpenID etc. Here is how a digitally signed LID requests looks like, broken into separate lines for better readability: http://example.com ?lid=http%3A%2F%2Fmylid.net%2Fjernst &lid-credtype=gpg%20–clearsign &lid-nonce=2014-05-30T16%3A54%3A57.016Z &lid-credential=SHA1%0AVersion%3A+GnuPG+v1.4.11+%28GNU%2FLinux%29%0A%0AiEYEARECAAYFAlOIt%2BEACgkQsIOiz0BhWYZ9MACcCelf5T6XyywOZ5jVq3eyMw9m%0A8C4AoJ6Vz47PKR2%2FEvNqDkv7OWFyHdSU%0A%3DpVzh%0A where: lid: The…
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Indie Industries?
It’s “writing hour” before the Homebrew Website Club aka Indie Web Camp Light at Mozilla in San Francisco. I’ve been wondering a lot about “Indie” stuff lately. Obviously, there’s my Indie Box Project, and Indie Web Camp, but also Indie Phone and others. “Indie” seems to be everywhere all of a sudden. Has the time…
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Indie Box crowdfunding is live
.. as of yesterday. So far, $2000 raised, which is great! P.S. Crowdfunding is streneous. Several press interviews since, lots of in-person demos, and responses to questions … but it’s fun!
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Trust Facebook, the IRS or the NSA?
If this isn’t amazing: Which of the following do you trust the most with your personal information? • The Internal Revenue Service or IRS… 35% • The National Security Agency or NSA.. 18% • Google………………………………………….. 10% • Facebook………………………………………… 5% • None (VOL.) ………………………………….. 28% • Don’t Know……………………………………… 3% • Refused………………………………………….. 1% • Total…………………………………………… 100% (source)…
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Wild idea: @mozilla $100 million open-source security project
In light of the #heartbleed bug: Mozilla could: get $5m from Google $5m from Facebook $5m from Amazon, IBM, Yahoo etc. etc. get $1m each from Fidelity, and BofA and all the banks get $1m each from the major e-commerce sites and from anybody who uses open-source code for their business and really gets hurt…