Upon2020 (archive)
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Information Cards Have the NASCAR Problem, Too
Paul Trevithick notes that most users don’t know what the purple information card logo might mean on a website and thus have no incentive to click on it to attempt to log in. That observation is of course correct, and identical to the observation about the OpenID logo: most users don’t know what that means…
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Off-Subject: Head, Neck and Back Pain
If you suffer from any of the above, or any pain at all, and haven’t come across the writings of Dr. Jolie Bookspan, I recommend highly you take a look. She just put something I wanted to get off my chest on her blog at Healthline. For somebody with an engineering background like me, I…
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Phriend Phishing in the Wild
[Additions in red in response to Bavo’s comments.] Should have guessed that Phriend Phishing was first going to happen to somebody famous. Now, how could that have been prevented? What if: Twitter adopted OpenID as the only way of authenticating. Twitter showed the authenticated OpenID identifier instead of a (possibly made up) user handle on…
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Ben Laurie: “Why Privacy Will Always Lose”
Deducted meticulously, and hard to disagree with, he finds: The popularity of a social networking site will be in inverse proportion to the goodness of its privacy controls. Time to be depressed, or time to get on with the show?
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In Doubt, Create Yet Another Identity Umbrella Organization
…or so it seems. The Kantara Initiative launched yesterday. It describes its goals as: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments. Sounds like Identity Commons? Or the Liberty…