Meta title: IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet's Missing Identity Layer Meta description: Kim Cameron's Identityblog contributes to the discussion of Identity and Privacy issues and technology. If focuses on the user-centric identity metasystem, a technical architecture for building the Internet's missing identity area. It includes selections and comments on other related blogs, and related whitepapers, download and resources.

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Latest blog posts from Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Personal information can be a toxic liability…
From Britain’s Guardian, another fantastic tale of information leakage: The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday denounced the consultancy firm involved in the development of the ID cards scheme for “completely unacceptable” practice after losing a memory stick containing the personal... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

The Laws of Identity
Thanks to Eric Norman, Craig Burton and others for helping work towards a ”short version” of the Laws of Identity. So here is a refinement: People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are in the physical world. The minimum information... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

The Laws of Identity
I’ve been working on how to make the Laws of Identity accessible to busy people without a technical background.  If you have ideas about how this can be improved please let me know:   People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Clarification
In response to my post earlier today on some OpenID providers who did not follow proper procedures to recover from a bug in Debian Linux, a reader wrote:   “You state that users who authenticated to the OpenID provider using an Information Card would not have their credentials stolen.   I... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Crypto flaw + bad practices = need for governance
Speaking of issues of governance, the Register just brought us this report on a recent ”archeological investigation” by Ben Laurie and Richard Clayton that revealed how a Linux security flaw left a number of OpenID sites vulnerable to attack: “Slipshod cryptographic housekeeping left... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

New York Times on OpenID and Information Cards
Randall Stross has a piece in the NYT that hits the jackpot in explaining to non-technical readers what’s wrong with passwords and how Information Cards help:     “I once felt ashamed about failing to follow best practices for password selection �" but no more. Computer security... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Getting down with Zermatt
Zermatt is a destination in Switzerland, shown above, that benefits from what Nietzsche calls “the air at high altitudes, with which everything in animal being grows more spiritual and acquires wings”. It’s therefore a good code name for the new identity application development... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Key Piece of The Identity Puzzle
John Fontana, who writes expert pieces about identity for Network World, just posted this piece, called “Microsoft Sets Key Piece of Identity Puzzle“.    Microsoft Wednesday released a beta of its most important tool to date for helping developers build applications that can plug into the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Problem between keyboard and seat
Jeff Bohren picks up on Axel Nennker’s recent post: Axel Nennker points out that the supposed “Cardspace Hack” is still floating around the old media. He allows the issue is not really a Cardspace security hole, but a problem between the keyboards and seats at Ruhr University Bochum: A... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

What identity providers will sites support?
Paul Madsen digs deeper into the factors that will influence the choices of Internet service providers as they move towards user-centric identity. “Often times, in trying to be clever and sarcastic, I dive too deep into the ’satire pool’. The urge to be witty and contrarian surpasses the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Seven Laws of Identity Wordle
Axel Nennker of Ignisvulpis writes, “Wordling things seems to be á la mode. I could not resist to wordle Kim Cameron’s Seven Laws of Identity….”  Thanks Axel.  This pretty much sums it up. Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Resources have rights too
Paul Madsen has a knack for pithy identity wisdom.  But his recent piece on HealthVault’s use of OpenID made me do a double take. “Simon Willison defends HealthVault’s choice of OPs [OpenID providers - Kim]. “I disagree. It is I, as a user, that should be able to dictate to HealthVault... Read more...
Published 2 months ago