Strong Authentication Not Strong Enough — InformationWeek.
December 14, 2009 05:05 PM

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Apple quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce over global warming views – SiliconValley.com.
Hmmm…. good to know the companies that embrace fallacy.  Screw ‘em!  I’m on a purchase hold from Apple and all the others on this Obamanation campaign against the evidence (or lack thereof).   There is NO GLOBAL WARMING!!!!  Any fool willing to look at the [...]

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Feb 2009 article regarding automated attacks on CAPTCHAs:  CAPTCHA Conundrum: Automated Attacks Trump Human-Entry Defenses:  http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/captcha_cnondru.html?queryText=anti-spam
From April 2008: “Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA needing only six seconds per attempt, and with a success rate of 10-15 percent, new anti-CAPTCHA bots are dismantling fraud protection systems at Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, [...]

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I mentioned in some post or other this week that I’ve really come to like Chrome.  One of the reasons is how completely spiffy quick it is not just to use once opened, but to open up.  It loads, no kidding here, 15 seconds faster than FF and 5 seconds faster than IE.  That got [...]

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If you are still in the misguided camp of those thinking that OTPs (One Time Password) are the end-all be-all of online security then you may find this information interesting.  Of course this particular instance is not the first case of OTPs being successfully attacked, Citibank and Nordea Bank both had reasonably well covered attacks [...]

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Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID
Finally an announcement in the OpenID world about an RP! Everyone wants to rule the world as IPs, but no one (that matters) wants to reciprocate. Guess I can’t say that anymore as FB certainly matters (for now).
How to Spot a Fake Census Worker
Remember, if anyone says, “I’m [...]

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Funny that discussions around identity systems always come back to being analogous to payment systems such as this post wishing OpenID to be the next Visa.  Similar to my thoughts on looking for Identity’s version of PayPal, though I don’t think OpenID as an organization has any hope in Hades of becoming the Visa of [...]

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I want to take the time and do an analysis of the various players that seem to be inching toward the kind of solution I’m looking for and contending to be the “PayPal of identity”, but time is tight now and for the next couple of weeks.  So in the meantime, here’s a couple sites [...]

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I ran across this initial post OpenID, Information Cards, and Passwords in my newsreader which then led me to the original article “Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense” as well as a bunch of other responses to the Goodbye article by Kim Cameron, Axel Nennker and Dave Kearns.
Great posts and all of this is marvelous commentary on all [...]

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Been a long time since my last post.  Indeed, it has been a long time since I did much more electronically than check my email and spend some late night hours hanging out with my Alea Iacta Est buds in WoW.  Why is that, you may ask?  My wife and I in the last 8 weeks [...]

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