This is just another installment of how the freedom of expression and scientific research is being sacrificed on the altar of “public safety” and “property rights”. From the CNET article: “A federal judge on Saturday granted the Massachusetts transit…
I just laughed out loud: Go King Homer I. of Spain! tags: humor, simpsons
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…
With the recent news about the DNS cache vulnerability, users are more exposed than ever to potential security attacks, including phishing or pharming attacks, that apply to OpenID as well as other network systems. For example, the ability to redirect…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is considering to invalidate many (if not most) software patents and significantly restrict the issuance of new process patents. No doubt, intellectual property does deserve decent protection, and I think that this move…
Marc recently published a short tutorial on how to use Apache Abdera with Apache Abdera with our reference implementation of JAX-RS, Jersey. His code is server side, i.e. it explains using Jersey and Abdera for creating RESTful web services with…
This week’s VRM Workshop at the Berkman Center in Cambridge, MA was quite interesting. It helped me quite a bit to sort out how Identity Management and VRM intersect, but also differ in some respect. To put it in a…
OpenSocial and Liberty People Services are really tackling the same problem – only from two opposing sites. While the LAP PS has established a solid foundation for secure identity management, OpenSocial has started out to define an API for allowing…
The current economic situation is not exactly ideal: amongst many significant issues, one of the most concrete and pressing problems of today is the highly volatile energy market. Many current problem in the world (such as clean water, food, housing)…
To day, I would like to take a peek at a technology that has been living in the shadows for some time. While HDTV and digital broadcast over-the-air have been getting some attention lately (especially with the January 17, 2009…