I was dividing my attention between the Scrubs special on TV & Digg on my PC, when an article titled " Experts: Passwords May Not Be a Good Online Defense " caught my eye: well, couldn't agree more!:-) It turns out that the article is from the NY Times, and it's short & sweet hence there's no need for me to summarize it here: Mr. Stross manages to capture the problem pretty effectively, also thanks to some nice quotes from Kim .     P.S.: I know, I know. I still owe you

Few months ago I made a little tour of Europe , and (among various places I visited) I went to spent some quality time in Amsterdam. Here I had the pleasure of spending some time with Albert van den Broek , CGO of Figlo : Albert is an excellent host, and during a nice dinner at a typical Dutch restaurant he explained to me the vision behind one of their new products. I am not very deep in financial considerations, so I will probably explain this in the wrong way (for which I apologize in advance):

On the Paris-Seattle flight, coming back after 2 weeks spent stuffing myself with all sorts of food with the excuse "after all, you can't find this in USA" :) Before hurling myself back in the vortex of daily work, and celebrate the end of the year with something crazy, I want to take some time writing down some hallucinatory (=vision without execution) thoughts about omnidirectional identities . Be warned, this may be just pointless rambling at this point. Few weeks ago I chatted about this in front