Must be the week for Canadian patriotism. Here is a slashdot article with links for country rankings for privacy with Canada tied with Germany for #1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1513239&from=rss Feels good. More to be done. More to be done.
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Good to see some recognition of the ongoing Canadian government contributions to progress with Digital identity. Over on Bruce Schneier’s blog he has some links to the Canadian privacy commissioner’s guidelines for identification and authentication and Industry Canada reference on authentication. On Kim Cameron’s blog Ontario’s privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian continues to keep privacy considerations
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This topic has been debated before (the hacker definition controversy) but I am strongly in favor of using different names for people who use computers for good or evil (or at least mischief). Unfortunately the press has tended to use hackers as a term to describe both types of people and that causes not only
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Digital identity – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Digital identity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people’s experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. Digital identity also has another common usage as the digital representation
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A little story for kids about sharing related to Digital Rights Management. http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html Also check out the Crow that could Fly story on Patent Abuse for kids and CEOs. http://www.dustrunners.com/dl/Crow_Who_Could_Fly.pdf
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Statistics show identity theft is becoming more prevalent with many different types that are increasingly more sophisticated. This one targets job seekers. Identity-theft scam catches 100 people in net: Identity-theft scam catches 100 people in net Police display fraudulent driver’s licences, SIN cards, credit cards
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Flickr is one of the best online photo sharing sites but it is clumsy identifying relationships for who should have access to photos.
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This is an example of the difference between an Enterprise and personal security product. Enterprise level products take into account the organizational needs to protect data while personal products rely on a single individual being responsible. With the well known issue of people forgetting their passwords it is asking for trouble providing people with a
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March 2005 The Password Is Fayleyure Today’s password schemes are unworkable and offer little security for users. By Michael Schrage Under Review: Password selection for Yahoo! Mail etc. PokeKey1…ou812$…twasbri11ig!. All were favorite passwords of mine long ago. The first is the name of the puppy I briefly had as a child. The second was shamelessly
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Useful summary of things that need to be considered as a blogger about going on the record. Reputation is being built or not by Internet publishing and there is no eraser. BusinessWeek Online You Are What You Post Friday March 17, 4:23 pm ET By Michelle Conlin One drizzly night in Seattle in 2001, Josh
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