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Archive for August, 2006

The virtualization of crime

Criminalization of cyberspace will grow as virtualization does. And what self-respecting criminal would thumb his nose at the convenience of people not knowing who they are connecting to?

Protect yourself from your credit cards

In 2006, everyone needs a personal Faraday Cage.

Phil Becker on Identity’s First Big War: a history lesson

Phil Becker helped write software for the space program. But to navigate today’s technology, he wants us to remember that for Thurcydides, History was “Philosophy teaching by examples” - while for Emerson, “history becomes subjective.”

Denial of servce attacks on the GE Puffer?

In light of the competing Sentinal product, the GE Puffer should be taken off the market to avoid humiliating its design staff. But there are other problems…

Advanced auditing at Centrelink

Can a system like WebCapture provide undeniable proof of transactions performed by clients, protecting the organization from false claims and litigation?

Aggregation through a single identifier

Our daily breadcrumbs - our attention - our personal interests in where we’re going and what we’re looking for and buying, are all being sucked up and stored with a unique identifier.

David Weinberger - lover of the status quo?

Our current ways of doing things are too dangerous - and much of that comes from the fact that we have been forced to store information we don’t need

Radia Perlman on PBE

Radia writes, “Identity based encryption. Sigh.”

Snoops highlight importance of second law

( Identity and Privacy )

Centralized databases worry me more than any other aspect of this technology

Practice equals theory - demos OK

When a site’s SSL certificate is also used for encryption of the WS-Trust token, everything has to line up between the transport and message level components. This worked across platforms.