The accountability matrix- October 29, 2002 Phil Windley is reading David Brin's amazing book, The Transparent Society. When I first read it a couple of years ago, I posted Brin's "accountability matrix" to my newsgroup for discussion. Phil had exactly the same reaction: ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/29.html#a492 Engineering for practical obscurity- October 25, 2002 David Weinberger reports another undocumented Google trick: a quoted phone number (without hyphens) yields name, address, and maps. Although this is not really any different from what Switchboard.com has been doing for some time, we nevertheless find these demonstrations -- as David says -- scary. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/25.html#a488 The atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today- October 14, 2002 On the last day of the digital identity conference I spent an hour with Phil Becker, co-founder (with Andre Durand) of Digital ID World. By the end I felt like Peter Finch in Network, whose skull was pried open by Ned Beatty in order to receive the cosmology of money: ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/14.html#a468 The social benefits of digital identity- October 14, 2002 At the digital ID conference, I met for the first time, or got to know better, a whole bunch of folks whose identities were formerly, to me, mainly digital, including: ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/13.html#a466 Remind me why I need a public key- October 13, 2002 Dick Hardt, founder and now CTO of ActiveState, was prowling around the digital ID conference asking a deceptively simple question: "Why do I need a key pair" ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/13.html#a465 Belated notes from Digital ID World- October 12, 2002 Here are some belated notes from the digital ID conference. I couldn't post from there because there was no FTP connection to the outside world. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/12.html#a464 Utah's PKI experiment- October 5, 2002 Utah CIO Phil Windley will be speaking at the digital identity conference next week in Denver. Excellent! On his weblog, Phil has been gathering his thoughts for the talk. I would be especially interested to hear his perspective on the PKI lessons Utah has learned, and the prospects going forward. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/10/05.html#a435 |