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• Boys scrap over Facebook

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, User Centric, Digital Identity, Platforms

  Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs and Master of New Media, took the lid off a noisy can of worms this week when he declared Facebook Bankruptcy, exhausted by his facebook chores of responding to endless invitations, requests and guilt trips. In sum, he says, “Folks have just opted in to another out of control inbox…. I’m

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• Burton Group reports on user-centric interop

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Information Cards, Code

  posted its evaluation of the user-centric interopathon held at this year’s Catalyst. The analyst is Bob Blakley, now with Burton and previously chief scientist for Security and Privacy at IBM Tivoli Software. Bob writes, “Prior to the event, there were some specifications, one commercial product, and a number of open-source

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• Linkage with CardSpace in Auditing Mode

  Published: August 5, 2007, 9:05 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Privacy, Openid, Minimal Disclosure, Linkage

  Well, for one thing, if the user lands at an evil site it can take complete control of the client (let’s call this “extreme phishing”) and trick the user into a lot of evil. Let's review why this is the case. Redirection protocols have two legs. In the first, the relying party sends the user's browser to the identity

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• Grab them eyeballs! Any cred at all!

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: User Centric, Digital Identity, Federation, Digital Rights

  a feature that reduced their user growth via network effects? Why would MySpace make it easy for sites to extract user profile information from their service? Because openness is great? Yeah right. Openness isn't why Facebook is currently being valued at $6 Billion… Dare’s explanation of how the big web properties see things is

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• Start using DigitalMe for Mac

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:36 pm

  Tags: User Centric, Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, Higgins, Bandit, Digitalme

  Over the weekend I installed “Digital Me for Mac” on my MacBook Pro and started using it with identityblog and other sites. It’s fast and totally does the trick. I’ve made a micro video demo that gives you an idea of what it’s like. The install worked just as it should. I ended up with a Bandit managed card -

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• New CardSpace Techie Blog

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: User Centric, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Blog

  CardSpace will inform the user about the lack of an SSL connection and the security implication of this. (Also, note the new streamlined look of this window.) “In addition, managed card issuers can decide if the card they issued can be used on sites that do not support SSL. This can be done by adding the following element to the .crd

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• EPIC opposes Google / Doubleclick merger

  Published: October 5, 2007, 9:19 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Privacy, Digital Rights

  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) made an agenda-setting intervention on new dangers in digital privacy recently. EPIC is perhaps the world's most influential privacy advocacy group, and presented its brief to a US Senate hearing looking into Google's proposed acquisition of Doubleclick. According to USA Today, The

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• Burton Group goes to Mainstreet

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:11 am

  Tags: Identity, User Centric, Identity Metasystem, Privacy, Linkage, Secure Payment

  virtual person in which users could invest the financial or identity resources of their choosing. Once their individual personas are created, consumers would be able to use them as their legal alter ego, even in financial transactions. My L.L.P. would have its own mailing address, its own tax ID number, and that's the

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• Zend PHP Information Cards

  Published: October 11, 2007, 2:44 am

  Tags: User Centric, Identity Metasystem, Federation, Privacy, Information Cards, Code, Platforms

  Web services) is enabled, users who access PHP-enabled Web sites will receive consistent user control of their digital identities and improved confidence in the authentication process for remote applications, all with greater security than password-based Web logins offer. Zend Technologies’ implementation of information cards lets users

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• Business, Model, Scenario and Technology

  Published: October 13, 2007, 5:20 pm

  Tags: User Centric, Digital Identity, Privacy, Claims, Business Model

  Reading more of the discussion about Identity Oracles, I’ve come to agree with the importance of having separate names for the business model and the underlying technology that would be used to deliver services. So I buy Dave Kearns’s advice: Drop it while you can, Kim. Bob’s right on this one. The “Identity

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• OpenID.com supports Information Cards

  Published: October 18, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: User Centric, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Openid

  method to sign the user in. The person signs into his MyOpenID.com OpenID with an Information Card. MyOpenID.com informs the relying party that the user utilized a phishing-resistant authentication method. This means that MyOpenID users will be able to get both the convenience and anti-phishing benefits of Information Cards at

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• Long Zheng tweaks Information Card icon

  Published: October 23, 2007, 7:02 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem

  Long Zheng’s blog - iStartedSomething.com - is way cool , and though he describes himself as ”technophobic”, he has not only understood the meaning of Information Cards - he has applied his obvious talent to tweaking the icon: A while ago, Microsoft began working on an icon to symbolize Information Cards. The download

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• OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst Europe

  Published: October 27, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Higgins, Bandit, Shibboleth, Xmldap, Xri

  the third in our series of User-Centric Identity Interop events last week at the Burton Group Catalyst conference in Barcelona. As in San Francisco, the Burton Group hosted and provided support for the event, and in this posting, analyst and cat herder Bob Blakley reports on what was accomplished: There were a few differences between the

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• That elusive privacy

  Published: October 27, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, User Centric, Privacy, Minimal Disclosure, Linkage

  Craig Burton amused me recently by demonstrating conclusively that my use of a digital birthday for non-disclosure reasons couldn’t survive social networking for longer than five digital minutes! Here’s what he says about it in his new wordpress blog (and he’s setting up infocard login as we speak)… Pamela Dingle

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• Ultimate simplicity: 30 lines of code

  Published: November 28, 2007, 2:12 am

  Tags: Blog, Code, Identity, Information Cards, Platforms, User Centric

  have a certificate. The user experience makes the difference clear - we are careful to clearly point out that the exchange of identity is not encrypted. In spite of this, CardSpace continues to provide significant protection against attack when compared with current browsers. You are shown the DNS name of the site you are visiting

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