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Why Identity Commons is SOOOO important

This post by Phil who is pointing to Jim Harpers outing of RealID scheming by vendors who want to sell States their tools.
Bringing Your Public Onboard For Smoother Legislature Changes
… [E]very State DMV needs to find a way to educate their public so that they can ensure the legislature [...]

DIDW Panel on Internet Scale Identity

Here are the slides for the talk. Will write more about this panel after it happens.

Will Netizen rights be protected?

From Slashdot:
“The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on government and private networks. ‘The plan calls for the NSA to work with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to monitor such networks to prevent unauthorized [...]

Because she Owns Her Image

This is quite an interesting case and highlights a flaw that can occur when people who use Creative Commons work.
A Texas family has sued Creative Commons after their teenaged daughter’s photo was used in an ad campaign for Virgin Mobile Australia. The photo had been taken by the girl’s youth counselor, who put it [...]

Cory Doctorow IF google went evil

THESE ARE ALL FROM A FICTIONAL ARTICLE at Radar – worth reading here are some highlights if you are in a rush….
He should have seen it coming, of course. The U.S. government had lavished $15 billion on a program to fingerprint and photograph visitors at the border, and hadn’t caught a single terrorist. Clearly, [...]

US collecting detailed data on regular citizens who travel

From the Washington Post:
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according [...]

On “Democracy” in contemporary America

I just picked up two books by ‘the’ Naomi’s today.
I saw them in the book shop and I was compelled.
1) The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolff

Naomi Wolff is on the Colbert Report
We don’t have a lot of time free societies close down very quickly [...]

Computer ART becomes ‘bomb strapped to chest’

This story is shocking.
An MIT student wearing a device on her chest that included lights and wires was arrested at gunpoint at Logan International Airport this morning after authorities thought the contraption was a bomb strapped to her body.
Star Simpson, 19, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and approached an airport employee in [...]

Scenario Planning Sunday Afternoon for Monday Panel

So for all of you coming to the scenario planning ‘exercise’ on Sunday for the DIDW panel on the Future of Internet Scale Identity we will be meeting in the Lobby of Tower 1 of the SF Hilton at 2pm.
With the numbers we have currently signed up I think this will do just fine [...]

She’s Geeky: An Women’s Tech (un)conference

I am producing another unconference this fall. It is for women working in technology called She’s Geeky. It is October 22-23 in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum.

I would encourage you all to let women you know in tech know about the event either via e-mail or blogging.
I am working with a [...]

Soon we will know what you are thinking

This came through Slashdot and was on the BBC:
Since 9/11, some of the best scientific minds in the defence industry have switched their concentration from tracking nuclear missiles to tracking individuals such as suicide bombers.
This quote is in the side bar make it sound all OK. Opinion polls, both in the US and [...]

Phone troubles – Is Grand Central the Answer?

So, I got a shiny new iPhone (for facilitating office 2.0’s Unconference) but I can’t get it to work yet.
I have MetroPCS – the ‘ghetto phone’ for those of you who don’t know it works like this – you buy the handset, you pay them your monthly fee on time or they turn your [...]

Kerberos Consortium launched

Kerberos Consortium has been launched by MIT. “We forsee a day when Kerberos-based authentication and authorization will be as ubiquitous as TCP/IP-based networking itself.” Here is the overview slide show
Their FAQ speaks to collaboration with active efforts
So, how does the MIT Kerberos Consortium fit in with things like the Liberty Alliance?
“We believe there is [...]

Huge Shout out to Laurie – THANK YOU

Laurie Rae was an amazing help at the Data Sharing summit. I completely forgot to thank her in my last post – so she gets a whole ‘thank you post’ for herself that she totally deservers.
Laurie is not as well known an identity woman as me or Eve but has been working in this field [...]

Data Sharing Summit – Wiki Gardening Part 1

I spent a good portion of this afternoon at a (solo) wiki gardening party on the Data Sharing Summit Wiki.
There is a page called Outcomes in the top Nav Bar that documents pages on the Data Sharing wiki along with the many blog posts that cover outcomes of sessions, links to photos of [...]