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- Beyond Single Sign On
- I'm just coming off three days at the Internet Identity Workshop IIW, a workshop I, Kaliya Hamlin, and Doc Searls organize every six months. IIW focuses on what's called "user-centric identity," a set of technologies for building an identity layer for the Internet. (You can read my...
- Tags: Security
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Internet Identity Workshop demonstrations steal the show
- One of the hallmarks of the Internet Identity Workshop IIW is the high ratio of getting-stuff-done to idle chat and marketing drivel. I remarked at the closing session that this wasnt a workshop in the usual sense of "conference not quite grown up." This really is a...
- Tags: Sxipper, Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Web Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Internet Identity Workshop and interop
- Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be doing another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006b) in December. Were back at Computer History Museum, Dec 4-6. The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Security, Web Technology, Internet Identity Workshop, IIW 2005, identity
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- A tipping point?
- Way back in the early mists of identity time, I was speaking with Bryan Field-Elliott then CTO of Ping Identity about the earliest drafts of the Liberty Alliance protocols, and whether or not they could be used for what we then called "internet identity." (Note: "internet identity" is now called...
- Tags: internet identity, OpenID, identity
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Internet identity is about authentication
- Internet identity is about authenticationnot even half a loafGranted, authentication and authorization are separate subjects, but authentication including identification is a pre-requisite for authorization. If OpenID doesn't tell you who it authenticated, you can't do identity-based authorization. This really seems useless for anything more than a single level of authorization.
- Tags: Internet, authorization, authentication, Internet Identity
- Discussion threads 2006-04-11
- Internet identity is about authentication
- As Doc Searls, Kaliya Hamlin, and I ramp up preparations for the second installment of the Internet Identity Workshop, (May 1-3, Mountain View, CA) we've put up a wiki for participants and others interested in following the event. Last time, we used a wiki...
- Tags: OpenID, authentication
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
- Internet Identity Workshop
- Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be hosting the second Internet Identity Workshop IIW in Mountain View, CA on May 1-3, 2006. IIW deals with what people are calling user-centric identity and Identity 2.0. LID, OpenID, YADIS, i-names, SXIP, Microsoft's InfoCard system, and the recently announced...
- Tags: Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Identity 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Building Internet identity systems
- Today was the first day of Internet Identity Workshop, a two day gathering of people interested in identity on the Internet. I've got detailed blog posts and pictures at my site. Unlike many gatherings, this workshop has very little "vendor" content, although there are certainly vendors there. ...
- Tags: Internet Identity, Liberty Alliance, identity
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
- Craig Burton cries 'ubiquity'
- At Novell, Craig Burton was one of the driving forces behind the modern notion of a network as a collection of services rather than a collection of wires. He's a master at seeing the big picture and identifying the limitations of particular strategies within that picture. I've known...
- Tags: Craig, Identity 2.0
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
Additional Resources
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot!According to the story the 2.1 firmware also contains...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...
- Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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