Nick Taylor on identity, privacy, the environment, and other assorted rants.

Posts from August 2009

Laws of Identity

There’s a stereotypical image that people who work at Microsoft are insular and inward-looking. Kim Cameron is far from that. He regularly posts insightful commentary on the ‘identity metasystem’ on his blog, and is widely seen as a ‘thought leader’ in identity management, driving forward standards such as Information Cards and taking a pragmatic, standards-based [...]


More on Facebook security

This week I’ve come across two more articles about Facebook’s poor security/privacy.
The first by Ian Glazer on the Burton Group Identity blog notes that apps can get access to all your details even if your privacy settings are set to prevent this… Whilst you can prevent a third-party app from accessing your details directly, if [...]


Chroma-Hash

It’s rare that IT security and aesthetics come even close to being related, however I stumbled across something on the Information Aesthetics blog this week which peaked my interest.
I’ve come across some debate recently around passwords. It seems to be becoming common knowledge that password security generally isn’t good enough these days, and 2FA or [...]