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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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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We are well into the era of Web 2.0 with social networking all the rage.  At work, we are using an increasing number of web applications and services.  Consequently, we are spreading around an incredible amount of sensitive information about our families, employers, associates and ourselves.  Amazingly, we have made no real gains in creating [...]

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I discussed this over on EYEdentityOnline.com: G-Archiver Brings Web 2.0 Risks Into Focus Originally published March 15, 2008

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This is a comment I posted over at Digital ID World’s blog post on “The Identity Acquisitions Continue“, but since this is something I have been meaning to bring up here and in the interest of being seriously lazy at heart… here ya go. I believe that whether anyone is ready to admit it yet, [...]

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Identity space continues to stay hot and actually heat up more.  Over the last several months OpenID was in all the news as Yahoo and seemingly the rest of the world jumped on that bandwagon, or at least said they did. Last week Microsoft announced their acquisition of Credentica and their technology for bolstering their [...]

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