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 [...]

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 [...]

33 Companies… 24 Projects… 57 Participants working together to build an interoperable user-centric identity layer for the Internet! Come join us! Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 and 9 at RSA 2008, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California Location: Mezzanine Level Room 220 Interactive Working Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11am - 4pm Demonstrations: Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm - 6pm Reception: Wednesday, 4pm - [...]

People don't always first see and experience things in the workplace...

Common identifiers that accrue reputation across social networking and blog sites will knock your socks off.

The thing that immediately came to mind when I read the subject of Christian’s post was Mark Twain’s famous remark, upon learning about rumors of his own demise: “The report of my death is an exaggeration”.

This Blogger enhancement doesn't nag and doesn't torment. It gives us a carrot, not stick

Last night OSIS and the Burton Group held the third in a series of user-centric identity Interop events where companies and projects building user-centric identity software components came together and tested the interoperation of their software together. Following on the Interops at IIW in May and Catalyst in June , the participants continued their joint work of ensuring that the identity software we’re all building works great together.