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I have heard a number of great things about Dave Morin at Facebook and have been wanting to chat with him about his views on identity for a while, and yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with him and Josh Elman. For those that don’t know Dave, he is one of the driving [...] Read More...
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My post yesterday on Facebook Connect raised a few eyebrows. I had a few discussions with people and a comparison of consumer identity solutions past and present may provide some context. (I have excluded InfoCards as I see them as a strong, enterprise grade solution that is currently too heavy for general consumer use.)
Passport
Microsoft rolled [...] Read More...
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At F8 today, Facebook rolled out their Friend Connect platform. With a small amount of code, other sites can integrate the Facebook identity system into their site. The keynote reminded me of early days of Microsoft as they rallied developers to build on their platform by explaining how the platform can help them and being [...] Read More...
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Today Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as corporate board members. This big news for OpenID. With Yahoo and Google becoming OpenID Providers earlier this year, this is really shaping up to be the year of OpenID.
First coverage I see of the announcement is at CNN Money. That’s funny. Read More...
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This year is starting off with a roll of thunder for OpenID with coverage today from TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired and PC World and OpenID positioned as a foundational technology of the DataPortability Workgroup and at the upcoming Social Graph Foo Camp.
With the finalization late last year of the OpenID 2.0 specs (included Attribute Exchange); [...] Read More...
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As enterprises migrate to on-demand applications, they are becoming a new and attractive target for phishers. Previously considered a threat for consumers, phishers are now targeting an enterprise’s customer list and using it to launch attacks against the enterprise customer - exploiting the enterprise brand. Many on-demand apps can send email to the enterprise customers [...] Read More...
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Jon Udell recently interviewed me about the BC Government Identity Management project. Podcast provides some thoughts on that, and then we wonder into general discussion on user-centric identity. Read More...
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On CBC News British Columbia will test a virtual ID "card" that enables citizensto connect with the government’s online services more safely andeasily, a top technology official said.
The government plans to begin tests on an "information card" early inthe new year, said Ian Bailey, director of application architecturefor the province’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Read More...
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Yesterday a spec was released that solves one of the internet identity problems: how do you let an app access your account at a web service without giving it your username and password. Yahoo, AOL, Flickr and Google all had a slightly different approach to solving this problem, which created additional overhead for developers. OAuth [...] Read More...
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I have become a fairly active Facebook user and recently had Lindsay Adams invite me to be a friend. Lindsay had no other friends at the time and, well, given the photo, was not really buying that this hot blonde *really* wanted to be my friend. I am naive at times, but not that naive!
I [...] Read More...
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Today I got an email from Smith Micro about VM Fusion. I have never dealt with Smith Micro, no real idea who they are. At the bottom of the email I noticed that the email had been forwarded by Sxipper. I click on the management link and see the following page
Cool! I see that this is [...] Read More...
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Petko D. Petkov a.k.a. pdp wrote a provocative post entitled "Identity 2.0: How Attackers Break into Identity-centric Services". As you can imagine, I was intrigued by such a title.
In the post, pdp talks about how the real world is decentralized and then claims that Identity 2.0 is centralized. An Identity 2.0 architecture is similarly decentralized. [...] Read More...
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After over a year of effort, I’m excited to see the results of many people become publicly available. The Province of BC wants to enable the right people to get the right information at the right time to enable better outcomes. One of the initial roadblocks in accomplishing this goal is knowing who the right [...] Read More...
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