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 [...]

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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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As I discussed in ID Theft Confusion, I’m much more concerned about ID Theft than I am any number of fraudulent uses of my stolen account information.  This story, “ID Theft – After-shock review” and the report it references, “Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2007“ should help convince you to be equally concerned to understand the difference [...]

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This is what I posted over at Web Worker Daily in response to a great post by Mike Gunderloy, “OpenID: A Contrarian View“. I have to confess that as closely as I follow and often espouse the value of OpenID, I’m a complete hypocrite as I don’t use it day-to-day. I like OpenID more as [...]

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While reading the article, “Brits risk card fraud with slack security“, I was struck again by the confusion around the various types of fraud and what falls into the bin of “identity theft”.  The article holds no surprises for anyone that’s ever watched the general public interact with their cards on and offline.  Hence, it [...]

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The HD format war continues though now the battle is more about whether there needs to be a “format” or not.  Discs are on their way out, we all know this is coming, but it may be coming even sooner than I’d imagined.  The digital-haves may skip BluRay for movies and go straight to digital.  [...]

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Got this in an email for posting up my picture of Phormtaiqr on Spock.com:  “Spock users have flagged and deleted a picture which you contributed to Tim Renshaw’s search result. Flagging and deletion occurs for a number of reasons. Sometimes it is because information is factually incorrect, sometimes it is because contributions are inappropriate. For [...]

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So I’ve finalized my plans to attend the RSA Show again this year.  Will be the first time I’ve been there not attached to a vendor exhibiting on the show floor.  Should be liberating! I’ll be networking as I pursue several avenues of opportunities for my “next gig”.  Good news is that there is a [...]

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How often do you need to crack something, really?  Once is all you need. Information Week has this story on Blu-Ray Copy Protection Breached and the response from the BD+ encryption provider has me scratching my head. “BD+ is a security response system designed to react to security attacks, not prevent them entirely. As part [...]

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This is the first of what will likely become a series and so categorized as a Rant: OK, so this is the last example of the day and nothing against Rafe, his post is just the last straw over the last couple days, where I’ve heard that how fast a browser opens really, really matters [...]

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