Category Archives: Security
Measuring anonymity
As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a...
Opinion: Why NFC trumps biometrics.
This is a copy of an op-ed I wrote in IT News on 20 September....
A serious advance in mobile device authentication
IBM Zurich researcher Diego Ortiz-Yepes recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which...
Is it Personal Information or not ? Embrace the uncertainty.
The Australian parliament recently revised our definition of Personal Information. We have lowered the bar...
Sep
How Bart Simpson might defend TouchID
A week and a bit after Apple released the iPhone 5S with its much vaunted...
Attribute wallets
There’s little debate now that attributes are at least as important as “identity” in making...
Metaphormosis
We can over-stretch our metaphors. Is a passport an “identifier”? Is a drivers licence an...
Designing Privacy by Design
I am speaking at next week’s AusCERT security conference, on how to make privacy real...
Technological imperialism
Abstract Biometrics seems to be going gang busters in the developing world. I fear we’re...
Let’s talk about privacy, in engineering terms
I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists’ thinking about...