Category Archives: Identity

Don’t mix business and pleasure

At the recent Gartner Identity & Access Summit, analyst Earl Perkins spoke of the potential...

Speaking plainly about Identity

I was recently editing my long “ecological identity” paper from last year and I was...

Let’s forget about identity

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

I never trusted trust

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

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...

Taking stock of the IdM scene

An awkward fracas has broken out in the identity standards community over the process that...

Identities are brittle but crystal clear – update

A year after the demise of Cardspace, and there is still no consensus as to...

Let’s embrace Identity Plurality

In information security we’ve been saddled for years with the tacit assumption that deep down...