I had a great day yesterday here at RSA. I awoke at 5am to make the train down to the valley. Arriving at 7:30 at the wrong convention center (Santa Clara instead of San Jose) I managed to take a taxi and make it in time to see Bill on stage and the Demo of InfoCards. Talking with a blogger over at ComputerWorld – his impression is that it is the “son of passport” unfortunate given how involved Kim has been in the community and how it seems that it is a good innovation that will be open to adoption by others. In that discussion it occurred to me that it might be wise to have a ‘search champ’ like event for the role out of this identity stuff. So that marketing doesn’t just walk and talk like it always has. If it is really different then it needs to be different. Maybe Liz can help out 🙂
I went on to the show floor and ran into Jeff ubois.
I interviewed the HP guys on their identity management solutions. Particularly the customer facing ones. I got “provisioned” (they asked me for all my real information – I assume for later marketing purposes – isn’t that ironic you go to a security show and they are harvesting you data like crazy.) I was Identity Woman ‘agent’ at the MK-6 and I went and logged into the CKA (central knowledge agency). in the process i checkboxed what information I wanted them to have. [I have pictures of all this but lost the camera battery so will have to wait on finding that to get them uploaded]
‘they get it’ the differentiation is not in “security” or the protocols – SAML they all do that. It is in user experience and supporting end users being in control of the flow of their information. We talked about two
I found the guys at Biopasswords – they two factor authentication by creating a algorithm of how you type. This way you type your password and it has to be write along with your pattern of typing it.
I went to the ping party and ‘formally’ met Andre Durand and talked to Eric Norlan.
The evening was concluded with a lovely dinner with Pam and Janelle from Nulius Secundus and Bob. We figured out that if added up how long the three of us had been married in total less then 1/2 as long as Bob has married.
Then we had a ‘women of identity’ slumber party.
Archives for February 2006
RSA Wireless "so 'secure' you can't get on the net" .
Here at RSA the wireless is so secure that you can’t get on it.
I did what I was told and picked up my “personal” login key before the event and then while plugged in to either net downloaded the help document – It is only written for Windows users, so that was no help.
There are long lines at the help desk.
It makes the case for usable security.
Last week – Identity Talks reach 60 folks :)
I had the opportunity to share about identity twice this week. We had an 2 hour + session at the OpenCMS Summit and then at MooseCamp. There is a lot going on in the community and a bunch of resources. Folks who have not heard about this space before they feel a bit fire hosed by it all.
Here are the links.
Who is Kaliya?
I got into all this tech stuff to server my community and still work on that at Integrative Activism http://www.integrativeactivism.net
I learned about technology at Planetwork and today serve as the Network Director there http://www.planetwork.net
I started working in identity as the evangelist for Identity Commons http://www.identitycommons.net about a year ago I became Identity Woman https://identitywoman.net
Identity
Wikipedia entry on Digital Identity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Identity
Identity Gang home of the Identity Lexicon http://www.identitygang.org/
(join the list..contribute to the wiki)
Internet Identity Workshop http://www.socialtext.net/iiw2005
(come to the next one in early May)
Microsoft InfoCards…
What are they?…http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2004/11/07/253526.aspx
Screenshot:
Kim’s the high integrity guy from Microsoft helping this whole space forward. http://www.identityblog.com
(I forgot to mention it but the laws of identity are there)
Identity and the enterprise
Liberty Alliance http://www.projectliberty.org/
SAML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML
Stand alone URL based Identifiers (sxip 2.0 forth coming soon)
SXIP http://www.sxip.com
Cooperating on YADIS
http://www.yadis.org
1) Open ID invented by Live Journal Founder Brad Fitzpatrick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid
http://openid.net/
2) Lightweight Identity
http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/Main_Page
3) XRI / I-names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name
Sharing Information:
XRI Data Interchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI
Here is a link to the PDF of my slides for those of you who asked. http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/OpenStandards.pdf
Eve Maler – XMLGrrl has a great post about the panel she and I were on Thursday – The long Identity Tail.
I am at RSA today…
I am at RSA for the next few days. Checking out the ‘security scene’. If you are around and want to be interviewed for the Story of Digital Identity feel free to ping me with via IM (I now have my Yahoo! IM on/off on the side of my blog) or with my i-name.
This morning I saw the head of RSA speak – FREAKY is all I have to say. They wan to have pervasive passive authentication – checking all user behavior against our prior behavior as stored in our browser (this is our attention data) and their uberdatabses on us. They are talking about really having us loosing our privacy. I would never give access to the uber security network system they are talking about plugging us all into. This will have constant surveillance of our transaction patterns “normalcy” according to their algorithms. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!
MarcCanter: Giants must open or die
Marc Canter has had a glimps into the future of microsoft…
For sure – each of these giants will make their own decisions, in their own due time, but at the end of the day – if they don’t open up – they’ll eventually lose their customer.
At least we have a way to connect these giant worlds together (and take us small little fry along for the ride at the same time.) That’s a huge breakthough and is the foundation of us building the distributed web infrastructure. What I’ve been chanting about is our own Open Source Infrastructure and the other kinds of open standards we need…..
StructuredBlogging.org is an attempt to keep all the various formats of microcontent compatible. Our upcoming PeopleAggregator APIs will provide basic social networking capabilities – to all – and a way of inter-connecting disparate social networks into one giant distrbuted mesh.
The world of media needs standards like Media RSS and one could imagine burgeoning new standards around Tags, Reputation, Events and Musical tastes and preferences.
It is nice to see the itags included in the list of open source infrastructure. Thanks Mark.
Julian Bond was in the audience and immediately complained “they’ll never be a LAMP version of Infocards” – but what I wanted to explain to Julian was that Microsoft is in the business of taking care of themselves, just as Yahoo, Google and AOL are – as well. So don’t expect a Linux version of anything from Microsoft, but you CAN expect meta-identity compatible ID systems for LAMP – that’s for dam sure.
Julian don’t be so sure about this statement.
