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We blog regularly about the future of digital identity and data protection, the fraught state of cybersecurity and privacy, and messes like blockchain, software engineering, and social media.
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,...
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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...
A response to M2SYS on reverse engineering
M2SYS posted on their blog a critique of the recent reverse engineering of iris templates....
Taking stock of the IdM scene
An awkward fracas has broken out in the identity standards community over the process that...
The double standard in biometrics analysis
The reverse engineering of biometric iris templates reported at Blackhat this month has attracted deserved...
Card fraud in Australia even worse than feared
Seasoned security analysts know the card fraud trends, but the latest stats in Australia are...
Identities are brittle but crystal clear – update
A year after the demise of Cardspace, and there is still no consensus as to...
For all the talk of ecosystems …
Yet another breathless report crossed my desk via Twitter this morning where the rise of...