I think honestly we need to leverage the power of the web and our network as knowledge workers and ‘march on congress’…Maybe that is not it but something … PLEASE SILICON VALLEY SHOW YOUR POLITICAL MIGHT!!!
From CNET:
It didn’t take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users’ activities to [...]
There is a great new documentary coming out ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM produced by Project Free Zarathustra. They have a great list of links.
I have been wondering about this for a while. Where is the companies in the Valley’s political might? and where is the political organizing amongst the people who work in this industry? In Europe the geeks organized to get the European parliament to ban software patents. It seems like it should be easy enough to [...]
This showed up on Slashdot yesturday and is from the Sydney Morning Harold:
AUSTRALIANS will need a photo identity card within four years to receive Medicare and welfare payments but will not be forced to carry it at all times.
The new “smart card” will contain “enhanced security” and replace 17 existing cards for Medicare benefits, [...]
I have been wondering about this for a while. Where is the companies in the Valley’s political might? and where is the political organizing amongst the people who work in this industry? In Europe the geeks organized to get the European parliament to ban software patents. It seems like it should be easy enough to [...]
GovExec.com’s Daily Briefing REports this:
New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a proposal to reject a federal mandate for national identification standards.
The state House last month passed a measure, H.B. 1582, to refuse participation in a program created under a 2005 law that requires state-issued IDs to meet national standards by 2008. The New Hampshire proposal [...]
From Silicon.com
The tourist city of Caen in Normandy is hosting a major European trial of the use of NFC (near field communication) – a mobile technology that can be used for anything from paying for groceries to finding out about your home town.
By placing an NFC chip near a reader, up to a distance of [...]
Reading articles like this makes me not want to trust Microsoft.
72 different colleges to use Windows Live for their email services. The problem with this is that Windows Live does not support any browsers besides IE 6, does not support POP or IMAP, and does not support email forwarding.” From the article: “The Redmond company [...]
This article on Network world highlights how even those alert phishing are fooled. It speaks to the need that a better ceremonial experience to sign into sites and do mutual authentication that Kim Cameron has proposed become standard.
A new study by reseachers at Harvard and Berkeley showed that 90% of participants were fooled [...]
I found this article at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security about Security Myths and Passwords. It articulates why forcing users to change there password every month is not an effective security measure.
This is DESPITE the fact that any reasonable analysis shows that a monthly password change has little [...]
Today I am working on the first day of IIW – how we tell the story of our community and current lay of the land in user-centric identity. I came accross this site… Change Your Identity – it is selling you a 165 page book on how to do it. New in this years [...]
I have had a challenge with my RSS reader. Making things slow as molasses. So I have not really be reading to much. I decided to do some surfing around and likely will abandon readers all together except for maybe 20 core blogs. The rest I will do by surfing and searching.
Today [...]
They are relevant to identity because it is interesting how people use the net to form their identity and do interesting things to make a buck doing things that would be impossible without it.
There are a few interesting “Internet Tricks” that I have come across and I thought I would share. The earlier one [...]
I was talking to a colleague in the tech industry who shared with me a story of how they coped with the silos of identity.
They get e-mail sent to the corporation machine and forward it to their real machine outside the ’silo’ to actually read it and respond. What are we doing to [...]
I am going to be talking at BayCHI on unconference design next month on May 9. It will be fun to share what I have learned from my years of conference attendance and recent foray into helping produce and facilitated unconferences like the Internet Identity Workshop and Mashup Camp.
I went to BayCHI on [...]
The thing I love about identity as a perspective to look at the world is that it shows up so often. Apple could double Market share on MS Defections.
Consumers are so distrustful of Microsoft that Apple could double its market share due to defections from the Windows operating system, a report by market analysis [...]
This head line explains it all. they’re-in-the-phone dept. the WSJ is reporting that Integrated Media Measurement Inc. is creating a device that will sample peoples environment every 30 seconds for sounds to determine what ‘messages’ and ads they are being exposed to.
Just wait until it isn’t just that they are tracking.