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Identity Gang rides again

Last Friday Doc Searls called to order another caucus of the Identity Gang on the last Gillmor Gang of '05, reprising the original gathering on New Year's Eve '04. As Doc notes in his ghosted shownotes, there was some interesting news about progress. In a conversation where time seems to...

Tags: Doc, Identity Gang

Blog posts 2006-01-04

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Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Feet on the street?In a crime where tens of thousands of credit card numbers and identifying information is stolen remotely from poorly configured databases, then sold on-line to other criminals, who then, presumably, use that information either for identity theft or straight credit card fraud, just where do you need...

Tags: SECURITY, Viet Nam, Gonzales

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform? Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Leadership, Strategy, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Feds want Mongols name as part of prosecution

Feds want Mongols name as part of prosecutionThats just dumb.What was this guy thinking?RE: Feds want Mongols name as part of prosecutionIsn't dangerous for law enforcement to be dictating what a person can and can't wear, despite their affiliations. If neo-nazis can wear swaztikas then why is a Mongol patch...

Tags: Mongol, motorcycle

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

Yahoo sues 'lottery' spammers; Good luck collecting

Yahoo said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against "Yahoo! Lottery Spammers" for launching a scam where users are convinced that they won a prize from the company. The lawsuit is the latest filed under the Federal CAN-SPAM Act. Yahoo filed suit in the U.S. District...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-27

EFF: Bill treats hackers as terrorists

EFF: Bill treats hackers as terroristsI think execution is a good remedy.I think that spammers, most hackers, virus and other malware writers should be executed. They are ECONOMIC TERRORISTS. The millions of hours spent cleaning in-boxes, the millions of dollars spent on anti-malware products, the millions of dollars and hours...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, hacker, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

RSA finds new malware enhanced phishing technique

RSA said Monday that it discovered a new phishing technique that uses elements of a malware attack to swipe personal information. The discovery illustrates a series of attacks from the Rock Phish group, which is a gang reportedly based in Russia that has been targeting financial institutions...

Tags: Technique, RSA Security Inc., Malware, Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-21

If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3F

If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3FWell ...And im so going to anger the privacy advocates here...Maybe we can create a token system. I want to sign up for a service at say, ZDNet, WELL I proceed with my sign up...however, I also have to insert a token into my computer (that through a special ACTIVX,...

Tags: CAPTCHA

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Why Real ID is a flawed idea

Why Real ID is a flawed ideaIDs and privacyI'm not up on the tecnical aspects, but why couldn't a "smart" card either allow access to only part of a data base or one of separate data bases, e.g. allow access to driver's license info, but not social security info, etc?They...

Tags: Identity theft, Government, Operational accounting, federal government, flawed idea, REAL ID, Social Security

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

German security shop challenges anti-hacker laws

German security shop challenges anti-hacker lawsHacking is now about making money; It is no longer about MicrosoftA few years ago, hacking was about making Microsoft products look bad. Today it is about real money. Once a computer is hacked, data harvesting can begin and data can be sold to companies...

Tags: Financial services, SECURITY, GERMAN SECURITY, hacking

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Identity theft getting physical

Markets are powerful things. Look at how eBay changed the world by creating a market for old stuff. Over a million people reportedly make most of their income from selling stuff on eBay. I have been writing and talking about the market for identities for a year now. I think...

Tags: identity theft, identity, card, credit card

Blog posts 2007-03-15

USPTO: Filesharing poses national security risks

The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a report that finds filesharing programs "threaten the security of personal, corporate, and governmental data,” according to Jon Dudas, the Bush Administration’s point person on copyright policy. According to a government press release, distributors intentionlly included features to facilitate...

Tags: Homeland security, Privacy, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-03-08

The Attention Gang prepares for a land grab

Fellow ZDNet blogger Denise Howell and I went to an AttentionTrust luncheon, where Michael Goldhaber decoded the concept of attention and Seth Goldstein and Steve Gillmor rolled out some AttentionTrust and GestureBank announcements. Denise covers Goldhabers talk and the Goldstein/Gillmor announcements with her usual thoroughness. Be sure to check out...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Michael Goldhaber

Blog posts 2006-10-05

Welcome Esther Dyson and Denise Howell

We have added two new bloggers to ZDNet in the last week--Esther Dyson and Denise Howell. Esther is Editor at Large at CNET Networks, which means she writes about whatever interests her in the technology arena. She describes the coverage of her ZDNet blog, Release 0.9, as follows:"I'll be covering...

Tags: Denise Howell

Blog posts 2006-08-25

The identity silo paradox

My recent post on Google's identity silo was part of a hailstorm pun intended of comments that occurred on the email list over at the Identity Gang. All of those fast-flying emails unveiled what I'm now calling the "identity silo paradox." Put simply the identity silo paradox is this:...

Tags: identity silo, paradox

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Pushing back on Google's identity silo

Ben Laurie, an employee of Google who is quite clear about the fact that he does not represent Google itself, is responding to my earlier post contrasting Google and Microsoft. Ben's pushing back on my contrasting of Google's Account Authentication versus Microsoft's Live ID, and my treatment therein. Specifically: ...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-23

States to sue chipmakers over price-fix charges

States to sue chipmakers over price-fix chargesWhen will OPEC and the oil companies be held accountable?Price fixing is illegal but that hasn't stopped the oil industry now has it?Wow, like the music industryexcept they ran past 2000 by 2 years and still didn't learn lessons about price fixing and getting...

Tags: Semiconductors, Price-Fixing, chip company

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Passion, common vision drove Higgins to success. Not big vendor agendas.

There's something special about witnessing innovation as it happens right in front of you. To a large extent, that's what this week's Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard University was about. Sure, there were a lot of interesting panel discussions that dove deep into all sorts of thought-provoking issues...

Tags: Higgins

Blog posts 2006-06-22

Catalyst: Day 2 begins

The morning of day two of Catalyst began with an early morning meeting of the Identity Gang. The majority of the meeting discussed the semantics of metaphors -- by that I mean, the use of "cards" as a metaphor for identity (see Microsoft's CardSpace). The metaphor of course has its...

Tags: Eric Norlin, identity, Identity Commons, metaphor

Blog posts 2006-06-15

Data breach legislation still lets agencies off the hook

Data breach legislation still lets agencies off the hookBring the "Incompetents" HomeIf ever there was an example of the Peter Principle people rise to the highest level of their incompetence it is the 109th Congress. They are the epitome of the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight. I could...

Tags: Data Breach, agency

Discussion threads 2006-05-30