Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

Let’s forget about identity

Here’s a radical thought: why don’t we Internet engineers forget about identity? Businesses and individuals...

It’s not too late for privacy

Have you heard the news? “Privacy is dead!” The message is urgent. It’s often yelled...

I never trusted trust

From the archives. “It is often put simply that in e-business, authentication means that you...

Types of Personal Information

It’s really vital that technologists, software developers, architects and analysts appreciate that privacy law takes...

The fundamental privacy challenges in biometrics

The EPIC privacy tweet chat of October 16 included “the Privacy Perils of Biometric Security”....

Fixed my RSS feed

Dear Lockstep RSS subscribers. I found out only last week that my blog’s RSS feed...

Identity is not a thing

We think we’re talking about a thing when we refer to identity provisioning, or “Bring...

Surfacing identity

Update 19 May 2014: I changed “assertions” to “attributes” in the body of the blog,...

Memetic engineering our identities

This blog post builds a little further on my ecological ideas about the state of...

Is quantum computing all it’s cracked up to be?

Quantum computing continues to make strides. Now they’ve made a chip to execute Shor’s quantum...