Identity Management
I stumbled across Toby Baier’s website today, and read some of his papers on identity management related to “sessions”. He is operating with a wide definition of what a session is…
Archive for the ‘identity’ Category
Open ID
Some thoughts on OpenID and the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google & MSN by Emre Sokullu and Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web.
The big idea in OpenID is providing a decentralized single sign-on platform.
The reason they do this is that signing up is actually a big barrier to entry for users of web apps. Users [...]
Malicious Identity Information Mining in Social Network Sites
Tech News World reports on a study conducted by CA and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) examining the link between specific online behaviors and the potential for becoming a victim of cybercrime.
“Although 57 percent of people who use social networking sites admit to worrying about becoming a victim of cybercrime, they are still divulging [...]
Users can only support one or two profiles simultaneously
In his social networking in 2007 predictions Fred Stutzman claims that people will only be able to actively keep up profiles on one or two social network sites.
“We may log on to lots of sites, but we can really only actively keep personas on one or two sites. We’re not entering a future where everyone [...]
Teens use Ephemeral Profiles
Danah Boyd is sharing some of her findings regarding teens, identity, and social media:
“..Many teens are content (if not happy) to start over with most of their accounts in most places. Forgot your IM password? Sign up again. Forgot your email address? Create a new one. Forgot your login? Time for a change.While adult bloggers [...]