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• Digital Identity Podcast for MySuccessGateway

  Kim Cameron and I recorded a podcast on digital identity for MySuccessGateway this week at the invitation of Jim Peake of SpeechRep Consulting. Jim was a gracious, informed, and enthusiastic host during our conversation, which covered a wide range of digital identity topics including identity theft, shared secrets, privacy, Information Cards and the Information [...] Read More... Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 3:32 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Claims, Privacy, OpenID, Windows Cardspace, Phishing Resistance, Interoperability

• A Personal Perspective on the Information Card Foundation Launch

  In May 2005, when I wrote the whitepaper “Microsoft’s Vision for an Identity Metasystem”, these sentences were aspirational: Microsoft’s implementation will be fully interoperable via WS-* protocols with other identity selector implementations, with other relying party implementations, and with other identity provider implementations. Non-Microsoft applications will have the same ability to use "InfoCard" to manage their identities [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:28 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Windows Cardspace, Phishing Resistance, Bandit Project, People, Pamela Project, Higgins Project, Interoperability

• Identity Choice at HealthVault

  Sean Nolan, chief architect of Microsoft’s HealthVault service, posted an article about giving their users choice for the identities they use to access their information. He announced that in addition to accepting LiveIDs, HealthVault is about to start accepting OpenIDs from two OpenID Providers and is also building native Information Card support. As [...] Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 6:32 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance, LiveID

• Even Phishers Have Their Problems

  While gone phishing, I discovered that the use of JavaScript puts one barrier up that phishers have to overcome to impersonate a legitimate site. In a characteristically hilarious post, Paul Madsen points out that, besides having to overcome active defenses like Sxipper (“Down girl!”), phishers may also inadvertently present pages localized for their locale, [...] Read More... Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 4:37 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Phishing Resistance

• Gone Phishing

  Fun Communications’ site idtheft.fun.de lets you mount your very own man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against the OpenID provider of your choosing. Rather than redirecting you to the OpenID provider you specify, it instead redirects you to a page impersonating the OpenID provider, created using content scraped from the real site behind the scenes. This is [...] Read More... Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 5:58 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 0 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Windows Cardspace, Phishing Resistance

• Fun Communication’s Fun Identity Innovations

  Johannes Feulner of Fun Communications recently showed me three different identity sites they’ve created, each fun and valuable in its own way. The first, www.webcard-loyalty.com , lets companies create online loyalty cards for their customers. Read More... Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 5:57 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance

• User-Centric Identity Interop at RSA in San Francisco

  33 Companies… 24 Projects… 57 Participants working together to build an interoperable user-centric identity layer for the Internet! Come join us! Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 and 9 at RSA 2008, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California Location: Mezzanine Level Room 220 Interactive Working Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11am - 4pm Demonstrations: Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm - 6pm Reception: Wednesday, 4pm - [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:25 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Firefox, OpenID, Windows Cardspace, Phishing Resistance, Software, I-names, Bandit Project, Pamela Project, Higgins Project, Interoperability, Shibboleth, JanRain

• Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation and its Board of Directors

  Today the OpenID Foundation announced that five leading technology companies, Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the OpenID board of directors as its first corporate board members. This news comes a year and a day after the JanRain/Sxip Identity/Microsoft/VeriSign OpenID/CardSpace collaboration announcement introduced by Bill Gates and Craig Mundie at the RSA [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:37 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance

• Phishing Protection for the Enterprise

  I was surprised during the recent blogosphere conversation on user-centric identity in the Enterprise, that no one referenced Sxip’s contemporaneous intelligently-written 2-page piece on how the use of Information Cards can help protect enterprise login credentials from being phished. Using Information Cards to enable safer remote access to hosted enterprise applications makes business sense. [...] Read More... Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:15 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Phishing Resistance

• I-names without Passwords at LinkSafe

  I’m pleased to report that ooTao and LinkSafe have recently collaborated to enable you to create and use i-names using Information Cards rather than passwords. They’ve achieved for LinkSafe.name what JanRain did for MyOpenID.com . Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:34 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance, I-names

• Look ma! No passwords!

  As Vittorio excitedly pointed out , you never have to enter a password to create or use an OpenID at MyOpenID.com . Kim’s excited about this too. So am I. Read More... Posted Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:28 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance

• User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst in Barcelona

  Last night OSIS and the Burton Group held the third in a series of user-centric identity Interop events where companies and projects building user-centric identity software components came together and tested the interoperation of their software together. Following on the Interops at IIW in May and Catalyst in June , the participants continued their joint work of ensuring that the identity software we’re all building works great together. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:10 PM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 0 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Firefox, OpenID, Windows Cardspace, Phishing Resistance, Software, I-names, Bandit Project, Documentation, Pamela Project, Higgins Project, Interoperability, LiveID, Shibboleth

• MyOpenID adds Information Card Support

  Kevin Fox just announced that JanRain has added Information Card support to MyOpenID.com. Read More... Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:06 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 0 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance