Peter and Anil recently made a very important point why attributes cannot be assigned “assurance” levels akin to authentication decisions. Instead, they suggested that attributes and their sources may be assigned “confidence scores” that may allow a service provider to…
Anil talks about LoA for attributes in response to some of the discussion at the recent IDTrust at NIST. This discussion came up a couple of times before, and I seem to recall talking about this: In the bigger picture…
Fresh from my router. Maybe I am paranoid, but this has all the hallmarks of reconnaissance written all over … 2012 Mar 1 02:25:53 [Gateway] [kernel] WAN2DMZ[DROP] IN=WAN OUT=WAN SRC=115.168.71.84 DST=192.168.1.248 PROTO=UDP SPT=5060 DPT=5060 2012 Feb 27 16:40:39 [Gateway] [kernel] WAN2DMZ[ACCEPT]…
Grahame is talking about “interoperability” and “intraoperability”, as different design philosophies for creating standards for system that “work together”. I feel not too competent to comment on the openEHR vs. HL7 aspects of this discussion, but it might be interesting to…
SD Times features an interesting article by Alex Hardy on how enterprise developers might be able to learn a thing or two from their brethren in the gaming industry. To me, this article is a full vindication of a belief that I…
An excerpt from Robert Kagan’s recent book “The World America Made” can be found in today’s Wall Street Journal. Mr. Kagan is the (in-)famous author of “Paradise and Power”, a comparison of the world view of Europeans and Americans, which…
Keith Boone put up on his blog an informative piece on how to get and use OIDs. If you are in need of an unique object identifier, either for healthcare or otherwise, you should probably head over and take a…
In a very refreshing article, Brendan Williams talks about the fallacies of securing systems based on compliance models, with an army of clerical staff working checklists to determine the security architecture for a new system. For a lot of my…
So it seems that Facebook is trying to force Timeline on everybody. With all due respect, but this is plain stupid. I do not want to have a timeline, ever. I will try to stop this, but if they go…
As indicated earlier, I am participating in my town’s information systems advisory board as a chair. Our proposal to move forward with a strategy to modernize the IT assets of the town received a big boost last night, when the…