{"id":1027,"date":"2008-11-09T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T00:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-06-10T07:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:22:40","slug":"leaving-a-comment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Leaving a comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since one of my goals is to introduce people to Information Cards – and because I used to get mountains of spam comments and\u00a0worse<\/em> (!)\u00a0– I require people to\u00a0either write to me or use an Information Card\u00a0when leaving comments on my blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(This blog is hosted for me by Joyent<\/strong>, and it runs on open source software (WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Apache, OpenSolaris).\u00a0 For Information Card support, it uses Pamelaware, an open-source project\u00a0offering\u00a0an Information Card\u00a0plugin for WordPress and other popular programs.)<\/p>\n

Information Cards\u00a0use an “identity selector”.\u00a0 Vista has the CardSpace V1 selector built right in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(If you\u00a0\u00a0don't use Vista\u00a0please continue\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, if you are wondering about our new beta of Windows CardSpace Geneva – V2 if you want – I'll deal with that in a separate post.)<\/p>\n

How you register at my site<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong> Click the Information Card logo or the “LOG IN” option in the upper right hand corner of the blog.\u00a0 (Clicking the logo saves you\u00a0the\u00a0step where you can learn about Information Cards).<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong> If you clicked the logo, go to step 3.\u00a0 If you have clicked “LOG IN”, you will see this page and can explore the ‘Learn More’ and other tabs.\u00a0 When ready, click on the Information Card logo to proceed.<\/p>\n

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3. CardSpace will start (it may be a bit slow the first time it loads).\u00a0 It will verify my site's certificate, and present it t you so you can decide whether or not to proceed.\u00a0 Click “Yes, choose a card to send”.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0 If you are trying CardSpace for the first time, you don't have a “Managed” card yet.\u00a0 So just create a “Personal Card” that serves a bit like a username \/ password – except it\u00a0can't be phished and protects your privacy\u00a0by automatically using a different key at every site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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5. You'll be asked to create a Personal card.\u00a0 Name it with something you'll recognize, and I recommend you put a picture on it (the picture will never be sent).\u00a0 The name and picture prevent\u00a0many attacks\u00a0since if someone tries to fool you with a CardSpace “look-alike”, they won't know what your Cards look like and you will immediately notice your cards aren't present!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Use an email address that you control –\u00a0you will\u00a0have to respond to a confirmation email.\u00a0 Then click SAVE.<\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0 Now you'll see your saved card, and click SEND.<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0 The information from your card will be used to log in to my site, but I'll notice you haven't been here before and send you an email that you must click on to complete registration (I want some way to prevent spammers from bothering me).<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0 The email I send looks like the one below.\u00a0 IMPORTANT NOTE:\u00a0 this email might be “eaten” by your spam protection software (!) , so\u00a0don't overlook your spam folder\u00a0to find it.\u00a0 (On Hotmail, it doesn't ever get delivered – haven't sorted that out yet.\u00a0 It doesn't seem to like my little mail server.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0 When you click the embedded link you'll be taken back to my blog as a verification step.\u00a0 Click on the Information Card logo to log in.<\/p>\n

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10.\u00a0 CardSpace will come up, and will recognize my site.\u00a0 Just click send.<\/p>\n

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11.\u00a0 Et voila…<\/p>\n

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Press “Go to Blog” and you can leave your comment.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the future,\u00a0logging in\u00a0will just be a two-step process<\/strong>.\u00a0 Click on the CardSpace logo, click on your personal card, and you will be logged in.\u00a0 No password to remember.<\/p>\n

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Some people think that even with Vista you need to download CardSpace. Not so – if you have Vista, CardSpace is on your machine and ready to use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,56,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}