The DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Privacy Office of DHS has sent a letter to the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, making some recommendations for the adjustment of the way the department deals with…
Category: Identity
It took a long time, but it seems that the time for an older idea of mine has come: Jeff Hodges is reporting on a report he prepared for the MIT Kerberos group to explore the use of SAML tokens…
Oh well, I finally sat down and took the time to convert my aging main web site into something more dynamic. Since my – overall – quite reliable hoster gives me free PHP5 and MySQL databases, I took a closer…
Times are changing, and people have to change with it. Doh – another pearl of obvious wisdom, but there is an interesting application to the work life: while regular employment might change rather abruptly, business and community relationships usually do…
The workshop on Open eGovernment is starting right now. Here is my slide deck, for all that might be interested: MIT MediaLabs – Open Identity Archtecture.pdf (1.01 MB) Soon after this is complete, the entire workshop will be posted on…
As part of the new U.S. administration’s BigDialog and Open Government technology agenda, the CommunityCount web forum is polling for issues that are relevant to the identity management community. If you want to make you voice heard with the transition…
I love foundational discussions – they always have the potential to fundamentally change my world-view, which is quite stimulating. Radovan picked up on my little piece on reputation. In particular he suggests that the question “What attributes should…
Paul proposed a conjecture regarding the validity of using reputation systems in the context of identity systems. This (and some discussion on the IDGang list) inspired me to dig again through some of my notes regarding the ontology of…
Amazingly enough, it took less than 24 hours to see the first massive privacy issues flaring up with Google Chrome. In a CNET interview, Peter Eckersley of the EFF says: “We’re worried that Chrome will be another giant conveyer…
Last year we announced an experiment at Sun: in order to gather more information about the operational characteristics of “user-centric” identity technologies, we decided to roll out an OpenID provider for Sun employees. This OpenID provider was intended to…