After recommendations on their blogs from Dick Hardt and Phil Windley, I recently finished reading Identity Crisis by Jim Harper. Phil gives a very good summary of the book here. I was very impressed with the book from start to finish and found it hard to put down. It started off fairly light talking about the different types of identifiers that we have but then moved onto some very hot… Read More »Identity Crisis
Motorists to give fingerprints I read today about the police using handheld fingerprint scanners to identify motorists. Seems I have been a bit slow on the up take of this story. Paul Squires has already posted his thoughts here. My thoughts are very similar to his. The story that I picked up from “The Register” indicates that your fingerprint will be checked against a database of 6.5m prints. My question… Read More »Police Fingerprint Checking on the street
Does anyone know of any software (preferably free or open-source) that will let me plot a graph on 3-axis (x, y & z) where z gives me depth? I have been looking but am struggling to find anything. Any help appreciated. powered by performancing firefox
Paul Madsen and I have been playing ‘blog tennis’ regarding a problem with my OpenID plugin for WordPress (i’m sure email was invented for this). His latest post is here. I can now confidently say that the problem is solved. After digging deeper into the code it appears that if you selected either DeadJournal or LiveJournal from the drop down list then the plug-in tried to be clever by pre-pending… Read More »OpenID issue solved
Yesterday, Paul Madsen commented on his blog about the WordPress plug-in that I use to allow users to use OpenID authentication when leaving comments. He questions the use of both the drop down box to select the IdP as well as the box to supply your URI. Paul, I can see and understand your point and when I get a minute, Iwill remove the drop down selector so that you… Read More »OpenID Authentication and WordPress
One of my good friends (and ex-boss) Mel Holloway has recently started blogging. In his second post he talks about the Oracle Architects club that we both attended a couple of weeks ago. He seemed to agree with my feeling (I have already commented on the event here) that the event was quite academic and a bit “blue sky” in its thinking. This opinion was also shared by Paul Squires.… Read More »Identity and Privacy
A couple of years ago there was a big push by the Central Government within England to get local Government to put more of their services online so that the public had more access to them. This created a big push which resulted in lots of online services from a large number of local governments. One of the services that seemed to be popular to publish were Planning Permission Applications.… Read More »ID Theft from Council web sites
I know I have been a little behind the curve in keeping up with postings over the past few week, but I am slowing catching up with the world. One of the things that I have seen is that Ping Identity has released a demo of a CardSpace Managed Card IdP together with a demo relying party which accepts the cards. I found this demo while reading Ashish’s blog here.… Read More »CardSpace Demo
Last week I attended Oracle’s 3rd Enterprise Architects Club held in London. The main topic of conversation was a presentation on “Identity Federation” by John Madelin of BT. The presentation was really good and it was the first time I have heard John speak in person. However, whilst I enjoyed the speech which was focused on the strategic impact of identity federation, I did find it a bit ‘blue sky’… Read More »Oracle Architects Club
At the weekend my sister Michelle got married. I was so amazingly proud of her. She looked absolutely stunning and it made me so happy to be part of her special day. The entire day was organised to perfection and could not have gone better. The venue “Clandon Park” was an ideal location for the day and even better, the English, November weather held out and there was even some… Read More »Congratulations!!