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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.
Forget what they taught you about authentication
If you work in e-commerce and cyber security policy, law, regulations or strategy, you’ve almost...
Simpler PKI is on the cards
PKI has a reputation for terrible complexity, but it is actually simpler than many mature...
We’re not ready for genetic engineering
Update September 2012 The recent discovery that junk DNA is not actually junk rather reinforces...
No such thing as a passport
What do you call it when a metaphor or analogy outgrows the word it is...
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...