{"id":303,"date":"2004-12-08T03:25:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:00:34","slug":"interview-with-mike-foley-on-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mike Foley on Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"
To help me frame the Laws of Identity in a practical way, I took on a scenario presented to me by Eric Norlin and began to drill into it<\/a> to expose the technology issues it presented in terms of identity. Part of this scenario involved using a bluetooth connection between a Polycomm and a Bluetooth phone.<\/h5>\n

I knew virtually nothing about Bluetooth at that point, and so had to learn. I studied the Bluetooth web site, and then approached Noel Anderson, a Program Manager in Networking at Microsoft. He was kind enough to give me an introductory tutorial about Bluetooth identity issues which I recorded as an Identity Interview with Noel Anderson<\/a><\/strong>. I found Noel fascinating, and Craig Burton thought our discussion was interesting enough to transcribe some of it:<\/a> In particular, I thought Noel&#39s example of an “identity bomb” taught us a lot about the underlying technology issues:<\/p>\n

When we were writing the paper we wanted to catch attention so we came up with the idea of the Bluetooth bomb. Every Bluetooth device has a 48\u2014bit unique ID number, which is possible to either query for directly or in a broadcast mode. So we came up with the concept of a low power Bluetooth device which was attached to a weapon that was querying for a particular device ID so that when the target cell phone or PDA or another Bluetooth device came into range it would activate the [bomb] device.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noel told me that things were being done to fix the protocols. But I was initially more interested in Bluetooth as an example of how privacy issues affect identity,<\/strong> and didn&#39t immediately tune into the details of the fixes.<\/p>\n

Then Mike Foley<\/strong>, who is the organizer of the special interest group that is fixing these problems, contacted me. I offered to interview him<\/a> so everyone could learn about what his organization was doing. As he began to tell me about the work that is going on to fix the identity problems, I was not only relieved, but amazed at how the fixes themselves demonstrated the dynamics of the Laws of Identity hard at work<\/em>. Bluetooth having been out of conformance with the Laws, concerns about the marketplace motivated its technologists to fix the technology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When Mike talks about the water that has flowed under the bridge of privacy since Bluetooth was first envisaged in the late 1990s, you really get a feeling for how there are objective factors shaping the emergence of identity technology. And his discussion of how identifiers work (in conjunction with what we learned from Noel) teaches us a lot about the relationship between identifiers and privacy.<\/p>\n

So here&#39s the Identity Interview with Mike Foley<\/a> as an mp3 (22 minutes). It&#39s really fun when we are talking about the Fourth Law of Identity… Mike also invites those of us who are serious about identity to join the SIG.<\/p>\n

By the way, I plan to publish a series of Identity Interviews to accompany the blog, so this will become a regular feature.<\/p>\n

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