Recent news about intrusions into the online accounts of public figures like U.S. presidential candidate Sarah Palin and prominent companies like Twitter remind me of the not-too-distant past. These appeaer to be bellwether events pointing out that the..
Topics: Commentary, identity, infocard, isoc, kantara, oauth, openid, security

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I was recently in line at the first airport security checkpoint, waiting my turn for the TSA agent to allow me into the gate area. In front of me was a man who had just handed the agent his documents, and I was about to see an example of the human brain..
Topics: anecdote, Commentary, identity, security

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A common problem when deploying wide-scale networked solutions is how to power the elements of the net. As reported in a MIT Technology Review article, Perpetua Power Source Technologies based in Oregon developed a solution for effectively powering...
Topics: innovation, Pointers, power, sensor nets, wireless

{"title":"Syphoning off Heat for Power","post_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/syphoning-off-heat-for-power\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/wp\/feed\/","author":"JTrentAdams","date":"2009-05-04 07:22:24","summary":"A common problem when deploying wide-scale networked solutions is how to power the elements of the net. As reported in a MIT Technology Review article, Perpetua Power Source Technologies based in Oregon developed a solution for effectively powering..."}

There’s a great discussion taking place on the OAuth list around how to make it easier to deploy.  It was started with a post by Kent Brewster lamenting the problems he ran into.  His post is a fun read, I’ve only snipped the top-level...
Topics: oauth, Pointers

{"title":"Making OAuth Easier to Deploy","post_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/making-oauth-easier-to-deploy\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/wp\/feed\/","author":"JTrentAdams","date":"2009-04-28 06:23:10","summary":"There’s a great discussion taking place on the OAuth list around how to make it easier to deploy.\u00a0 It was started with a post by Kent Brewster lamenting the problems he ran into.\u00a0 His post is a fun read, I’ve only snipped the top-level..."}

At the ID Workshop leading into the RSA Conference, we announced the impending formation of the Kantara Initiative. To those following the Identity Community, this wasn’t really ground-breaking news as we’ve been working on this for the past.
Topics: infocard, isoc, kantara, liberty alliance, Pointers, standards

{"title":"Kantara to Build a Trusted Bridge","post_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/kantara-to-build-a-trusted-bridge\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.mediaslate.org\/wp\/feed\/","author":"JTrentAdams","date":"2009-04-24 11:56:31","summary":"At the ID Workshop leading into the RSA Conference, we announced the impending formation of the Kantara Initiative. To those following the Identity Community, this wasn’t really ground-breaking news as we’ve been working on this for the past."}