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Hang on to your eyeballs! Epic 2015

Here is a must-see video clip called Epic 2015 that extrapolates current events and practices forward into a disturbing identity future. I doubt many will be able to stop themselves from laughing while they watch this, but not many will walk away thinking they have just seen a comedy!
I need to thank [...]

Hacker taps into US military database

If you want proof that protecting personal information is a hard thing and that Data Rejection is a key technology, read this report from the Washington Post:

A suspected hacker tapped into a US military database containing social security numbers and other personal information for 33,000 Air Force officers and some enlisted staff.
That figure represents about [...]

Trying to understand technorati tags

I’ve been playing with technorati tags so I could develop the practical understanding necessary to at least follow the discussion about how they relate to directory.
I think tags have interesting possibilities as a technology - more on this when I understand them better. But there are aspects of the way technorati works which still [...]

Mozilla’s Mike Shaver

A few months ago, Marc Canter, Craig Burton and Doc Searls introduced me to Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla Foundation. We had a good discussion, and following up on that, I’ve been able to get together with the Foundation’s Mike Shaver to talk about the identity metasystem. He is focusing on how to [...]

Toby Stevens launches Enterprise Privacy Group

When I was in Britain earlier this summer, I met Toby Stevens. How should I describe him? Can we invent the category of privacy entrepreneur?
Toby understands privacy issues deeply, and works in conjunction with veterans and visionaries like Simon Davies. He talks with wit and matter-of-factness about privacy as an [...]

Piggly Wiggly leads the way!

Today Barry McPeake sent me this five-star eye-popper from Baseline Magazine - “The Project Management Center”. This is for “mature” audiences only - reader discretion advised:

“Are you ready for your warehouse to become a privacy battlefront?
“If not, keep your eye on the United Kingdom. One of the largest trade unions there, GMB, is [...]

Identity: Golf and Life

Here’s a great identity lesson from Gunnar Peterson’s wonderful 1 Raindrop blog.

Identity in a system is like the grip in this story:

“I used to watch you sometimes when you weren’t looking. What struck me particularly was your interest in the grip. You knew, like every real expert, that a true player can be recognized by [...]

More Details on Ping’s InfoCard Toolkit

Here’s some info hot of the press - or rather, hot off the Ping Toolkit’s readme.

The SourceID InfoCard STS Toolkit for Java is a library and simple framework for writing server-side applications which interact with the Microsoft InfoCard identity system (InfoCard is itself also still a work-in-progress as of this writing).
Microsoft InfoCard is an identity [...]

Ping Identity Releases InfoCard Toolkit

It’s hard to believe my eyes but the Ping People seem to be right out there on the forward edge of the innovation heat wave…
They’ve just released a toolkit through which you can build applications that support InfoCards wherever you can run Java. You can download it here. Unfortunately the download page [...]

New Identity Incubation Project at Apache

There is a new Apache Software Foundation (ASF) site run by Hans Granqvist and dedicated to a project that is intended as an incubator for thinking and innovation around Identity 2.0. The project is known as TSIK (Trust Services Integration Toolkit) and joins the WSS4J initiative as a possible foundation for Apache’s identity [...]