Monday, March 17, 2008 - Posts

• Ways to share

  Share with everyone (a.k.a OpenID) Share with a selected few (a.k.a Shibboleth/InCommon) Share with the chosen one (a.k.a SAML, WS-Fed) Share with no one (a.k.a my kids and of course the identity silos). No Tags Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 9:44 PM from itickr.com | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity, SAML, WS-Fed, Shibboleth

• Centralization!

  Yes Brothers and Sisters, you heard what I said. Centralization walks amongst us, sneaking around under the innocent looking disguises of 'usability' and 'convenience'. Do not be fooled! Centralization takes on many faces - whatever is necessary in order to lead us into its fearsome clutches . The Word is perfectly clear - centralization is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and what's more, can pose a significant public health risk. Let us pray. Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 4:49 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• OpenID Thoughts

  Trust (using the word here in a broad, abstract way) has been one of the strongest reason for the OpenID adoption. The spec does not require for OPs and RPs to get together and discuss key exchange, business value, liability issues, attribute data and so forth. OPs and RPs work independently of each other and [...] Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:48 PM from itickr.com | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, OpenID, SignOn.com, Identity, Trust, Yahoo, AOL

• Australian for Privacy (Redux)

  Continuing on with Vikram's meme of the inner-connectedness of Australian beer commercials & privacy, I respectfully submit ' I feel like a GUID '. I also believe there is an, as yet unexplored, analogy between export beers like Fosters & Heineken that, while popular outside of their respective origin domains (indeed, thought of as representative types), are generally considered to be like the proverbial 'Making Love in a Canoe' within those domains, and federated identity. Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 11:20 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• How juvenile (really)

  My teenage niece uses FaceBook. Alot. We were temporarily friended-up there. I removed the link so I could write this post. (Although I wonder if FaceBook's 'updates' defeated the intent of hiding her?). Her invite Hello uncle paul, paul says u r a babe!!! It's good to know that my namesake nephew, notwithstanding him always calling me 'Fatty', sees the inner me. The posts from my niece's friends on her 'wall' provide an interesting insight into how they see confidentiality. For instance (some details Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 10:42 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Cookies & Claims

  Modern day explorer Ranulph Fiennes purchased a biscuit left over from the Antarctic expedition of Robert Scott. Fiennes paid almost 4000 pounds for the cookie. The provenance of the biscuit in question was that it had been retreived from Scott's camping tent on his (failed) run back from his (failed) bid to be first to the Pole. Claimed provenance that is. In " Race to the Pole ", Fiennes hints that the cookie has crumbled. it almost certainly came from Cape Evans, and not from the tent where Scott Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 7:13 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments