I don’t know what Rohan Pinto is talking about in his recent post about commercialized blogging! Looking up at the SUN this morning, I was trying to decide what to put in my WORDPRESS BLOG today when an idea popped straight into my mind. I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea so I gave my colleague a PING to find out his opinion. He wasn’t sure either, so… Read More »Paid Advertising for Blogging
Interesting week in the trenches Mark Mac Auley posted earlier this week about his jetsetting week meeting people to talk about identity management. One point that he does make is: “The 4 PM blew their hair back to the point that I stayed over another night to meet with an even broader audience to pitch the notion of control to. Funny thing is, they were far more interested in audit… Read More »Identity Management, Auditing and Role Management
Following on from my previous post about benefits freeloaders, my other big gripe with the government is laws concerning asylum seekers. Aside from the fact that I believe we are way too “Immigrant Friendly” in this country there is one particular law which I find unbelievable. As it currently stands, if an asylum seeker commits a crime in this country we will NOT deport them back to their own country… Read More »I don’t usually do Politics but………………..Asylum Seekers and Crime
Following on from my previous post about benefits freeloaders, my other big gripe with the government is laws concerning asylum seekers. Aside from the fact that I believe we are way too “Immigrant Friendly” in this country there is one particular law which I find unbelievable. As it currently stands, if an asylum seeker commits a crime in this country we will NOT deport them back to their own country… Read More »I don’t usually do Politics but………………..Asylum Seekers and Crime
Politics in the traditional sense has never really interested me. Like a lot of other people, I exercise my right to vote (although the numbers of voters seem to be dwindling each year). However, beyond my vote, I, like all other tax payers are at the mercy of whatever hair-brain ideas the government has on how best to screw more money out of me (and other working class people) and… Read More »I don’t usually do politics but………………..State Benefits
Politics in the traditional sense has never really interested me. Like a lot of other people, I exercise my right to vote (although the numbers of voters seem to be dwindling each year). However, beyond my vote, I, like all other tax payers are at the mercy of whatever hair-brain ideas the government has on how best to screw more money out of me (and other working class people) and… Read More »I don’t usually do politics but………………..State Benefits
As I have mentioned before, there has been a lot of discussion of late within the Identity Gang around “What is user-centric identity” and “Where does it fit into the enterprise”. One of the battles I have had in my own mind is understanding where all the different technologies protocols, frameworks etc (Card Space, XRI, OpenID, LID, YADIS et al) fit into the equation. It seems that I am not… Read More »The link between i-cards and i-names
My colleague Paul Squires posted a comment about Identity Provider vs Identity Verifiers which Johannes Ernst has commented on here. Whilst I agree with the point that both Paul and Johannes have raised, my concern is the different terminology used for the same thing. To quote Johannes: “However, the same (or even better) trustworthiness can be accomplished by the “verifier” model (using Paul’s term, at NetMesh we use the term… Read More »IT Terminology
Bob Blakley (IBM) gave a very interesting presentation a Catalyst on what he calls “The Meta-Identity System“. The basic idea of this is that your information is not given away as it is using a standard Identity Provider. Instead, the user’s privacy is maintained by only giving out meta-data in response to questions from the relying party. The example quoted by Bob is: “It can do this simply by changing… Read More »The Meta-Identity System
Last week I started a discussion within the Identity Gang trying to understand where user-centric identity fits into the corporate world. This has sparked a whole heap of discussion on the topic. Hopefuly, I will try and summarise my thoughts here at some point in the near future. However, for now I am trying to add some technological detail to the use case. Taking some of the comments from the… Read More »User-Centric Identity in the Corporation