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Bruce Schnider is brilliant!!!!

I saw Bruce Schnier twice at RSA and missed the third time he was on stage for a debate on Real ID. If you don’t read his blog you should. I was excited to see him at RSA and he surpassed my expectations. He is a very clear communicator and full of [...]

NY Times sues DoD over NSA spying…woohoo

This is a bright light on the horizon.
The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it.
The Times in December broke the story that the NSA had begun [...]

The Times will subscribe itself into irrelevance

I have been running into a lot of NY Times ‘premium’ content this week.
How on earth are they going to be relevant in this age of connectivity if you can’t see their site? They would make so much money of they eyeballs that did show up if they didn’t try to reduce it by [...]

Higgins opens up

Big News in Identity Today
Project Higgins – which is being managed by the Eclipse open source foundation — is developing software for “user-centric” identity management, an emerging trend in security software. It enables individuals to actively manage and control their online personal information, such as bank account, telephone and credit card numbers, or medical [...]

Datamining article in NYTimes

Data mining is already being used in a diverse array of commercial applications — whether by credit card companies detecting and stopping fraud as it happens, or by insurance companies that predict health risks. As a result, millions of Americans have become enmeshed in a vast and growing data web that is constantly being examined [...]

My conversation on passive authentication overheard last week.

Eric took the liberty of blogging this.
Kaliya: I don’t like Art Coviello’s thing about passive authentication. I don’t want them watching me. I want control.
Eric: ok – but passive authentication is already happening all the time – and its *preventing* identity fraud.
Kaliya: yea – but that’s not the way it should be done.
Eric: I agree, [...]

Freeky Identity Stuff in Slashdot this week..

From the would-be-funnier-if-it-wasn’t-true dept: Camera’s in homes
An anonymous reader writes “In one of the most blatant and frightening statements made on privacy, the Associated Press reports that Houston’s police chief wants surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and even private homes. Chief Harold Hurtt wants building permits to require cameras in shopping malls and large apartment [...]

Nancy’s ‘very human’ Presenation at MooseCamp

Nancy White gave a great presentation about people and the interaction with the blogosphere at Moose Camp. Here are the notes that I took.
Roles in Network:
Filters
Amplifiers
Conveners
Facilitators
Investors
Community builders
Skills for learning with others:
Listen, Fliter (search, Tag, bookmark) annotate, blog
Be unkonwing
REciprocate
Facilitation for:
Relationshiop
Identity/REputation
presence
Flow
Facilitation skills:
the Classics
Informed by ICT
Space Holding
Improvisational
Creatively Abrasive (Leonard)
Shouting doesn’t work online the way it does face [...]

My Olympic “identity”

So I am picking up from popular culture that the Olympics are happening now. Some of you may not know that I spent many years of my life dreaming about playing in the Olymics and actually training with an eye towards oventual competition there. I made it to the Pan-American Games (the [...]

A service I use got bought by Google…mmmm…

So I started using MeasureMap several months ago the first week it was live . I LOVE it…but it just got bought by Google. I am not a big fan of Google these days…now they have all the traffic and links on my blog. Are they going to start charging me for this [...]

Valentines Day at RSA

I had a great day yesterday here at RSA. I awoke at 5am to make the train down to the valley. Arriving at 7:30 at the wrong convention center (Santa Clara instead of San Jose) I managed to take a taxi and make it in time to see Bill on stage and the Demo [...]

RSA Wireless “so ’secure’ you can’t get on the net” .

Here at RSA the wireless is so secure that you can’t get on it.
I did what I was told and picked up my “personal” login key before the event and then while plugged in to either net downloaded the help document – It is only written for Windows users, so that was no help.
There are [...]

Last week – Identity Talks reach 60 folks :)

I had the opportunity to share about identity twice this week. We had an 2 hour + session at the OpenCMS Summit and then at MooseCamp. There is a lot going on in the community and a bunch of resources. Folks who have not heard about this space before they feel a bit [...]

I am at RSA today…

I am at RSA for the next few days. Checking out the ’security scene’. If you are around and want to be interviewed for the Story of Digital Identity feel free to ping me with via IM (I now have my Yahoo! IM on/off on the side of my blog) or with my i-name.
This [...]

MarcCanter: Giants must open or die

Marc Canter has had a glimps into the future of microsoft…
For sure – each of these giants will make their own decisions, in their own due time, but at the end of the day – if they don’t open up – they’ll eventually lose their customer.
At least we have a way to connect these giant [...]

We “don’t really like the format”…then don’t use it

So, I am here today at OpenCMS. Boris opens a session that he is leading on GeoMapping. He says flat out…”you know I really don’t like this format where we are at the front of the room and you are out there but we all have ideas to contribute”. It is very frustrating [...]

XML GRRL to meet Identity Woman at OpenCMS Summit

Blogs are fun….I just learned that I will be on a panel with XMLGrrl author of Pushing String on Thursday at the OpenCMS Summit. I have been reading her blog for a long time.
I just got here this afternoon already I am longing for open space process (believe me we tried to [...]

‘what is your name’ – when I order coffee it is “Lu”

I went into a coffee shop here in Portland and ordered a raspberry latte. They asked me what my name was – really what they want to know is what ‘identifier’ they can call out to let me know my coffee is ready. If you have an easy name like Kate or John or [...]

Queer Identities and discrimination online

So there is a big hubub going on around World of Warcraft
[the new "golf" in case you haven't heard yet - I can't wait until we have WoW day pre DIDW instead of real golf...what do you think Vince ].
around discrimination towards the queer community. Dana Boyd’s latest post was brought my [...]

Identity and privacy …. falling google stock price

From Slashdot.
While the company says it isn’t worried about the stock price correction, there are other issues at hand.” From the article: “Google is under mounting pressure from many traditional industries: telecommunications companies do not like its plan for free internet phone calls, book publishers and newspapers have filed a lawsuit to try to prevent [...]

my identity precedes me at Recent Changes Camp

I flew up to portland for recent changes camp that is just beginning this morning. I have had quite a few experience that go like this…
Hi i’m (Mike, Bill, John….)
I’m Kaliya
Oh…your THE Identity Woman.
So this has been interesting. Eugene Kim (he drove up from Eugene with Tom Atlee) is here too so hopefully we [...]

Identity theft…continued

So apparently to some in the identity community having someone use your debit/credit card number is not “really” identity theft.
This is how I see it. The Bank ‘issues’ me an identifier – or an identity.
It is the card that i get from them – when I present it and enter in my pin they know [...]

Identity theft…continued

So apparently to some in the identity community believe having someone use your debit/credit card number is not “really” identity theft.
This is how I see it. The Bank ‘issues’ me an identifier – or an identity.
It is the card that i get from them – when I present it and enter in my pin they [...]