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Here is an interesting article in eWeek. To me it is one more report on how “bad process” leads to “social reaction” with deep technological implications for the topology of identity systems:
Lawmakers’ renewed urgency is being fueled largely by the recent security blunder at data warehouse vendor ChoicePoint Inc.
The incident, which illustrates the [...]
The Anti Phishing Working Group now includes Pharming on its web site. However, so far it has not changed its name to the “Anti Phishing and Pharming Working Group” - which is definitely a good thing. Anyway, the site says “Pharming uses the same kind of spoofed sites, but uses malware/spyware to [...]
Guess what? The Sutter School RFID trial has been brought to a halt. This outcome was predictable given that this particular deployment broke two laws of identity.
Thanks to Greg Lucas at SFGate.com for bringing us the latest on this story. His article begins as follows:
Sutter , [...]
Further to the curse just discussed, Mark Wahl points us to last year’s NIST Knowledge-based Authentication Symposium web site. Several presentations take on the issues of authenticating to an infrequently-used service with potentially public information.
I was at Bruce Schneier’s site reading about the problems with SHA-1 and came across this perfectly articulated gem:
It’s happened to all of us: We sign up for some online account, choose a difficult-to-remember and hard-to-guess password, and are then presented with a “secret question” to answer. Twenty years ago, there was just one secret [...]
Responding to my comments on Patrick Keefe’s Village Voice “Darknet” piece, Todd Dailey writes:
“If your point is that better identity management would prevent phishing and other end-user identity theft attacks, I agree. However most of the techniques described in the article point to the need for better security, such as firewalls, virus protection, and [...]
Whispers of Probing Mind points out that the Brittan School District may be the first in California to use RFID tags for children, but not in the US or around the world:
November 18, 2004: Suburban Houston school district is tagging 28,000 students with RFID-equipped ID badges that are read when children get on and off [...]
A reader of yesterday’s piece on bodynets suggested checking out this Vodafone site, which is a must-see for the identity affectionado. It’s superbly put together, although at one point I got trapped in Vincenzo’s incredibly messy bedroom as he played, if you can believe this, a mediterranean version of “This is my dog” to [...]
From Scott C. Lemon, this intriguing post:
Funny what you find on the net! While reading through some links related to wearable computer research I cam across this great page with some thoughts by Ana Viseu about “bodynets” and Identity. Besides that fact that I really like the look of the web site, I [...]
There is a thought-provoking piece by Patrick Radden Keefe in the Village Voice about the “darknet”. If that’s a new term for anyone, Keefe says that:
“In 2002 four Microsoft engineers published a paper in which they coined the term the “darknet.” This was essentially an extensive and opaque Internet black market, ‘not a separate [...]
