Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

Do they know what they’re getting themselves into?

What most people seem to be missing in the NSTIC discussion is the sheer novelty...

Over-engineering a No-No except in Digital Identity!

Why should digital identity be so tricky? The past decade is littered with earnest initiatives...

Its not for nothing we call them Identity Silos

Interoperability slides off the tongue as a must-have in identity systems but is it really self-evidently...

Reading Peter Steiner’s Internet dog

How are we to read Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re...

On Test cricket

Many traditionalists insist Test cricket is superior, and that Limited-Overs cricket — One-Day and even...

There is no algorithm for good management

There is a malaise in security. One problem is that as a “profession”, we’ve tried...

CNP fraud continues to rise in Australia

Every six months, the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics for the...

‘Cybernfreude’ and Wikileaks

Wikileaks has long been invaluable. So I hate to think that in flooding us with...

Smile! You’re on Candid Apple

Apple is reported to have acquired the “Polar Rose” technology that allows photos to be tagged...

Wikileaks’ ‘defenders’ take the law into their own hands

On ABC Radio PM yesterday, Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu suggested that Wikileaks might...