The metasystem includes all foundational identity technologies

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, I’ll use this to help orient conversations around why there needs to be a simple, [...]

Congratulations and thanks to Pamela Dingle for publishing a detailed analysis of what that the industry accomplished together during the Third OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop (I3). As Nulli Secundus writes about the paper: The OSIS I3 Interop was a five-month event in which organizations, individuals, and projects working in the solution spaces of Information Cards [...]

Let's avoid the word "credential". It has so many meanings as to be confusing

Passwords seem perfectly natural "because we’ve been trained to repeat them so much"

Kim Cameron and I recorded a podcast on digital identity for MySuccessGateway this week at the invitation of Jim Peake of SpeechRep Consulting. Jim was a gracious, informed, and enthusiastic host during our conversation, which covered a wide range of digital identity topics including identity theft, shared secrets, privacy, Information Cards and the Information [...]

YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of the ICF board who also serve on the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) board (Mike Jones is the [...]

Sean Nolan, chief architect of Microsoft’s HealthVault service, posted an article about giving their users choice for the identities they use to access their information. He announced that in addition to accepting LiveIDs, HealthVault is about to start accepting OpenIDs from two OpenID Providers and is also building native Information Card support. As [...]

Fun Communications’ site idtheft.fun.de lets you mount your very own man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against the OpenID provider of your choosing. Rather than redirecting you to the OpenID provider you specify, it instead redirects you to a page impersonating the OpenID provider, created using content scraped from the real site behind the scenes. This is [...]

Johannes Feulner of Fun Communications recently showed me three different identity sites they’ve created, each fun and valuable in its own way. The first, www.webcard-loyalty.com , lets companies create online loyalty cards for their customers.