Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
An Authentication Claims Exchange Bus
Last week I had the very great pleasure of participating in the first MIT Legal...
Identity is in the eye of the beholder
That is to say, identity is in the eye of the Relying Party. The word...
Feb
Let’s talk about privacy, in engineering terms
I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists’ thinking about...
Classic Facebook stalking horse
Dec 19, 2012 Yesterday Instagram made its first move towards delivering the real value in...
Don’t mix business and pleasure
At the recent Gartner Identity & Access Summit, analyst Earl Perkins spoke of the potential...
Any ideas to curtail CNP fraud?
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...
If Facebook were honest
The first and foremost privacy principle in any data protection regime is Collection Limitation. A...
Security-convenience trade-off: What trade-off?
As mentioned last month, the security-convenience trade-off in computer security is radically different from traditional...
Taking logon seriously
To a great extent, many of the challenges in information security boil down to human...
Speaking plainly about Identity
I was recently editing my long “ecological identity” paper from last year and I was...