An identity question
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A Question of Identity
A Question of Identity
12/12/2002 07:47 AMWebTechniques Dec 12 2002 6:24AM ET
Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services
Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services
05/25/2004 11:30 PMMicrosoft Corp., together with six of the industry's leading identity
management vendors, today previewed interoperable federated identity
management solutions based on the Web services architecture (WS-*).
Software companies IBM Corp., Netegrity Inc., Oblix Inc., OpenNetwork
Technologies, Ping Identity Corp., RSA Security Inc. and Microsoft
have successfully concluded work demonstrating how their identity
management technologies interoperate using the Web Services Federation
(WS-Federation) specification, part of the WS Security set of
specifications. In his Tech•Ed keynote address today, Andrew Lees,
corporate vice president for Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft,
showed how federated identity management based on WS-Federation and
the WS-* architecture will simplify the work of IT professionals as
they seek to cut the cost and complexity of passing identity
credentials across security and organization boundaries in a Web
services environment.
Identity, Identifiers and Identity Fraud
Identity, Identifiers and Identity Fraud
08/18/2004 05:04 PMIdentity comes first
Identity comes first
02/13/2004 02:40 PMIf you're concerned enough about web services to want to manage them,
they you'll be even more concerned to control who ...
Re: QUESTION
Re: QUESTION
07/27/2004 04:35 PMViktor Larionov (Jul 16 2004)
QUESTION
QUESTION
07/26/2004 04:08 PMAlex Mega (Jul 26 2004)
Question of the Day
Question of the Day
04/09/2004 04:10 PMDo I do it? Do I not do it? Do I do it? Do I not do it? Do I do it? Do
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Do I do it? Do I not do it?...
Mac Or PC? That Is The Question...
Mac Or PC? That Is The Question...
07/03/2004 10:01 AMWindows can be OK, with work, and is sometimes required by corporate
or school rules, but don't write off Linux or Mac until you've seen
what they can save and do. By Phillip Robinson, Knight Ridder (via
MyAppleMenu)
Who are you, that is the question.
Who are you, that is the question.
03/08/2004 11:09 PMThis could be tremendously interesting: ShareID and Zopto. ShareID is
a single sign-on and authentication system built around FOAF and the
Atom API, while Zopto is the companion Social Networking system, again
built around FOAF. All come from the dastardly...
To C or not to C, that is the question
To C or not to C, that is the question
03/11/2003 01:22 AMWell, i was wrong about the PHP manual being helpful in writing
extensions. The manual is totally inadequate when you are looking for
help on how to code PHP objects in C. Worse, most PHP extensions don't
use classes, so there's little sample code to go over, so you have to
be good at guessing. Lastly it appears that you don't actually write
extensions in C. You write preprocessor scripts in a funny macro
language that is not properly documented. Then pray that the C
compiler will compile it.
Anyway, i've got bits of ADOdb working as a PHP extension. You can do
this now:
$rs = $db->Execute($sql);
while (!$rs->EOF) {
print_r($rs->fields);
adodb_movenext($rs); # this is 100% C code!
}
$rs = $db->Execute($sql);
$array2d = adodb_getall($rs); # more vitamin C
Well the interesting question to ask is: what's the speedup. Not much
actually. The overhead of the PHP classes in ADOdb (compared to native
mysql calls) is about 25-30%. Converting to C reduces the overhead to
about 15%. It is possible to convert more of the PHP code to C, but
the loss in flexibility is probably not worth it.
I haven't done benchmarking at this low level for a long time, and I
can see some subtle affects that i have never realized.
Firstly, defined('CONSTANT') seems to be at least 100 times slower
than isset($GLOBALVAR). I found this out when using constants to
detect whether php_adodb.dll was loaded.
Memory allocation is relatively expensive in PHP. It seems
adodb_getall(), which gets all records, runs slower than calling
adodb_movenext() repeatedly from PHP code. This is probably because
adodb_getall() uses tons of memory as it generates the recordset,
while adodb_movenext() just gets one row at a time. A bit like the
tortoise and the hare. Slow and steady wins the race.
Unfortunately it appears that I cannot make use of this extension 100%
transparent to the user. I thought of embedding adodb_movenext() in
the MoveNext() function, and automatically switching between PHP and C
code based on the extensions loaded. It turns out that the
autodetection code causes the newly boosted MoveNext() to run slower
than the plain old PHP version. Caveat emptor!
Lastly, Jason responds with a link on developing PHP extensions on
Unix. Very impressive, but it makes my brain hurt nearly as much as
zval and (Shakespeare would have loved this) zval_ptr_dtor...
"zeldman.newsy"
Still the Question: What Did You Do in
the War?
Still the Question: What Did You Do in
the War?
02/14/2004 02:49 PMThe old question - what did you do in your generation's war? - is
back, in a new and perhaps more unforgiving context.
"To Do or to Have? That is the
Question"
"To Do or to Have? That is the
Question"
02/18/2004 01:15 AMA recent
posting on the subject of Panamanian married couples who drive
older cars but hire live-in nannies to help with their children
sparked quite a few comments. Alex Chernavsky sent in th
is newspaper story about research done by social psychologists,
the conclusion of which was that if you're going to spend money you
should buy an experience, e.g., dinner out with friends or a vacation
trip, rather than a new car. The full paper is an interesting read as
well.
The 64-Bit Question
The 64-Bit Question
06/03/2004 12:07 PMWhen it comes to technology, people seem to love numbers, and bigger
is always better. That explains part of the reason why AMD has been
doing quite well lately with their 64-bit chip. However, Simson
Garfinkel explains all of the details about 64-bit (and 32-bit)
computing to explain why, unless you're doing some massive data mining
or working on specific scientific applications, the only people 64-bit
computing (by itself) is really helping out
are the marketers who tell you need to buy a 64-bit computer.
While there are performance benefits to 64-bit chips, for the most
part, the benefits are because the chip is newer and made with better,
more modern technology - and don't have anything to do with its
64-bitness.
The question
The question
01/26/2004 07:41 PMI’m thinking ahead to the general election.
Both parties will try to set the agenda, of course. (They’re
supposed to do that.) The Republicans will talk about three things, I
think:
1. Which candidate will continue to take the war on terror to where
the terrorists live?
2. Which candidate will keep the IRS from grabbing all your
hard-earned money?
3. Which candidate will prevent homosexuals from destroying marriage
as we know it?
That’s three things, national security, economy, and values.
Lots of people have suggested that this general election will be about
one of the first two, national security or the economy.
But I have a feeling that it may be about values. It will be about
civil unions.
I’m remembering Dukakis. During a debate he was asked about his
stand on the death penalty—but he was asked in a very personal
way. He was asked what he would do were his wife murdered.
His answer should have reflected some emotion that people could relate
to. Instead he gave a dry, dispassionate answer about why he’s
against the death penalty. It made him seem not exactly human, and it
played right into the stereotype of clinical liberals from the
northeast.
I imagine Bush or a moderator asking a similar question of the
Democratic nominee, but this time it’s “What would you do
if your son married another man?”
How could you possibly answer this question? You support civil unions.
But this is about you and your family, and people want an answer they
can relate to.
It’s not as black-and-white as the question Dukakis answered.
You can’t express elation or disgust, anger or joy, but you have
to express something.
Looking months into the future, I can imagine where in a close
election the whole thing may turn on the answer to this question.
The three laws of identity
The three laws of identity
12/19/2004 02:57 PMIf Kim Cameron, Microsoft's architect of directory services, had been
a physicist, there might be one or two fewer buildings in Redmond
today, and more holes in the ground - or maybe the world would be a
lot better off.
Firefox Identity
Firefox Identity
02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Steven Garrity talks through being part of the
Mozilla Visual Identity
Team on Acts of Volition. Much of their work has been concentrated
on branding
Firefox (formerly
Firebird) and it’s an insightful post into the creation of a design
team. The post also links to
Jon
Hick’s weblog about the process involved in creating the new icon
set.
Mac OS X and Aqua has us spoiled with it’s ability to render high
quality graphics, and I have to say that the new icon for Firefox is
one of the finest looking icons I’ve seen in a long time.
Identity Commons
Identity Commons
09/09/2004 05:25 AMIdentity Commonshttp://www.idcommons.net/* you could navigate the Web using one easy-to-remember
password?
* you could enter your personal data once and use it on
many Web sites?
* you had a simple way of determining how
information about you is used and disclosed by others?
* you
could ensure that your personal information and identity was
controlled by one person -- you?
At Identity Commons, they
are striving to make this possible by creating the framework for
trusted electronic communications. These tools will make your
communications simple and convenient, secure yet verifiable.
Individuals will be able to decide just how persistent, portable and
private their online identity is, relationship by relationship;
organizations that support this form of communication will derive
greater value from their customer/member relationships while enhancing
their reputation with customers. Serving as the backbone for this new
technology are data sharing agreements that establish the parameters
for the exchange and use of personal information between users. This
has been added to
eCommerce Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Better security through identity
Better security through identity
09/09/2004 12:30 PMMistaken Identity
Mistaken Identity
04/16/2004 06:19 PM Interestingly, it seems that 'brightcreative.com' [which is in fact
coming soon, despite the empty promise that particular wording
entails] is generic enough a name to warrant mistaken identity. For
example: let's say, hypothetically of course, that my server is...
Packaged identity
Packaged identity
04/16/2004 03:45 AMLast time I talked about identity management for travelers in the 19th
century based, as it was, on letters of credit and letters of
introduction. The problem, of course, was that not everyone had
friends influential enough to provide a letter of introduction that
would gain you entrance to the things you'd like to see. A number of
enterprising gentlemen stepped into this breech, including one whose
name is still very well known, Thomas Cook.
Have identity, will travel
Have identity, will travel
04/14/2004 03:55 AMI was in Sydney, Australia last week for Marcus Evans' Identity and
Access Management Conference. There I listened to a number of people
talk about projects they've done or have planned and I heard industry
spokespeople talk about products and protocols. But the most memorable
comment, to me, came from Peter F. Wilson, who is retired from the
Australian Tax Office where he was charged with implementing
e-business and commerce.
Why Pay To Be An Identity Thief?
Why Pay To Be An Identity Thief?
03/14/2005 05:27 PMFor all the furor over Choicepoint's
selli
ng of personal data to some identity thieves, some are pointing
out that it doesn't make much sense for such thieves to buy the data
when
so much is available for free online. A professor has written a
program searching out online resumes that often include the person's
social security number -- making identity theft simple (and free). Of
course, there are other methods of getting people's private info...
such as offering to give them
a cheap
ballpoint pen or
some
chocolate. Even better, one study showed that people will give
you their private info
if
you just ask for it nicely.
Preserving Identity
Preserving Identity
08/27/2004 01:40 PMMark Pilgrim's Identifying Atom article indirectly makes three
assertions about what would be ideal in a syndication protocol with
respect to ids, which I will paraphrase thus ...
Identity and Email
Identity and Email
06/18/2004 06:59 PM...There are a number of ways to look at relationships. One is ties in
a social network. If you plotted a graph of directional ties using
email and and one using RSS they would be different, perhaps even the
opposite....
NY AG Wants Do Not Identity Theft Law
NY AG Wants Do Not Identity Theft Law
04/18/2005 02:28 PMNew York's Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Eliot
Spitzer seems to show up wherever there's an issue that's getting a
lot of press. He took on Wall Street companies, spammers and
insurance scammers among many others. So, is it really any surprise
that he's now decided to
take on identity theft? Of
course, there already are laws against identity theft and fraud.
While they could be made better, it's not clear that's what's
happening here. In fact, one of the proposed laws speaks directly to
all of those recent data leaks from ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and
others. It would create a "Do Not Share" list that people could sign
up for, forbidding any of these companies to share your data. While
this might sound good on its face, it seems to be based on the idea
that there really isn't a good reason for companies to ever share your
data -- which isn't quite true. Many of the conveniences we have
these days is because of the data that's available. Granted, in
plenty of cases it may have gone too far, and these companies have
done a dreadful job -- but a full stop "do not share" list (which many
people would quickly sign up for without realizing the impact) could
greatly inconvenience many people. A much more reasonable solution
isn't to ban all sharing of information, but to give people more
control and visibility into (1) what information companies have about
them and (2) how it's being used. That way, individuals can work to
prevent the misuses, while still getting the benefits.
OS X and identity notes
OS X and identity notes
06/05/2005 11:32 PMMake X11 forwarding work again in Tiger. I only use it to run the
vmware-console so I thought something in RHEL had broken it. Doh. (via
Jim) Turn off caps-lock in Tiger. Awesome. I remapped my caps lock to
the control key. (Before 10.4 you could use uControl for this, but it
was a bit of a pain to keep upgraded). OpenID - properly distributed
identity system. I'm going to make the new identity/single sign on
server I'm making support...
Identity crisis (XML.com)
Identity crisis (XML.com)
09/13/2002 06:40 PMWhat RSA has to do with federated
identity
What RSA has to do with federated
identity
05/26/2004 04:06 AMAnyone like me with more than a few years in the networking trenches
remembers when RSA was RSA Data Security, and was known as "...the
world's brand name for cryptography..." (see link below).
Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis
09/12/2002 07:48 AMKendall Clark examines section 2 of the W3C Technical Architecture
Groups "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web", concerning
Identifiers and Resources.
To PC or Not to PC? Still the Tech
Question
To PC or Not to PC? Still the Tech
Question
01/03/2005 05:55 PMTechnology Marketing Jan 3 2005 9:05PM GMT
Question Mark #129
Question Mark #129
08/10/2004 03:13 AMWhat came first for Hall of Fame, clear or black bases? How much will
each of the basic OTC figures cost? Will all of the figures that were
supposed to be released in the Hall of Fame lineup be released on OTC
packaging now? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in
the today's edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #128
Question Mark #128
08/09/2004 01:03 PMHas anyone found the collector's cup with Princess Leia at Target? I
was wondering why Hasbro does not use the original 12-back image on
the reverse side of the VOTC cards? Does anyone now what happened to
the Endor wave? Find out the answers to all these questions and more
in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #157
Question Mark #157
06/05/2005 11:52 PMIs there going to be a Celebration 4 in 2007? Are Shaak Ti, Mon
Mothma, Luminara Unduli, Ask Aak, and Meena Tills in
Revenge of the
Sith and I just missed them? Will there be any bigger Star Wars
vehicles in the ROTS line? Find out the answers to all these questions
and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
A Question About XHTML
A Question About XHTML
03/12/2003 10:14 PMAlex Jones asked me to pass along a question to webgraphics readers:
In an upcoming redesign should I use XHTML...
Bit Torrent question
Bit Torrent question
04/09/2004 10:30 PMBit
Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this
the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).
Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit
underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of
places to find files, etc.
I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine
was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of
design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know
it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point
is coming :-).
Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately
noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people
posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes
in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons
of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every
Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.
In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep
sets of files—scary.
Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway
Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and
I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and
pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).
Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in
Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish
bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half
dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I
should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch
them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”
The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be
able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last
year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!
(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file
containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last
weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice
package).
[
The Digital
Music Weblog]
Question Mark #112
Question Mark #112
12/23/2003 02:12 PMSince Sly Morre seems to be a possibility for figurization next year,
it has me wondering if perhaps she's loaned her likeness to the Clone
Wars' own Asajj Ventress? The springboard on my Deluxe Force Powers
Yoda with Super Battle Droid doesn't pop open as suggested, am I doing
something wrong, or is my purchase defective? What odds do we have,
however slim they may be, that when Lucasfilm says we're getting the
"original trilogy on DVD" do you think it's at all possible they mean
the true originals not the special editions? Find out the answers to
all these questions and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #111
Question Mark #111
12/16/2003 06:29 PMI just found the super articulated Clone Trooper; fourteen points of
articulation and no place to connect to a stand, what's up with that?
If Red Leader's X Wing were to be made, would you have any information
on what it would look like in terms of details? Do you know which
online retailers are selling the second set of Cantina figures? Find
out the answers to all these questions and more in the latest edition
of Question Mark!
Best Question Of The Year
Best Question Of The Year
08/03/2004 08:46 AM... as asked to an Apple sales guy: Hi, I'd just like to find out...
if I buy the 17" Powerbook, can I install
Windows
XP Pro in it?
Runner-up? Is Photoshop bundled inside [the
iPod]?
A question of privacy
A question of privacy
05/25/2004 11:41 PMComputer Times Asia May 26 2004 4:07AM GMT
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