Mozilla Wants to Eliminate Passwords With ‘Persona’
Mozilla thinks it's high time you stopped creating a new username and password for every site you want to use. To do that the company has launched a second beta of its Persona identity project. Now all...
View ArticleIdentity Over Time and Mr. Potato Head
When it comes to Mr. Potato Head, his identity is something amorphous and hard to define. Wired Science blogger Samuel Arbesman ponders how, in the absence of his body -- or his body parts -- Mr....
View ArticleNext Generation Privileged Identity Management: What Will It Take?
The hybrid cloud represents a new generation of computing. Inevitably, advancements in infrastructure bring new requirements for management solutions. There are five core capabilities essential to...
View ArticleRole-Based Access Control: Meek or Monster
In the world of identity and access management, role-based access control (RBAC) is gradually becoming a frequently used term dictated in part by legislative and regulatory norms as an increasing...
View ArticleIdentity: The Heart of the Connected World
When Hugo Campos gave his 2011 TEDx talk, “Fighting for the Right to Open his Heart Data,” he touched on a subject that can and will ultimately impact the way we think about technology — the Internet...
View ArticleNew Service Rates Your Phone Number Just Like Your Credit History
Most web companies want to attract as many users as possible. But they don't want scammers, spammers, and bots using their web applications. Companies use everything from email verification to IP...
View ArticleInternet of Everything: Is This the Way the World Ends?
Science fiction writers used to imagine a world in which our robot servants would throw off the shackles of their masters and dominate the world in an orgy of anarchic destruction. What if it’s...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Big Data, and Where We’re Headed
Big data is an umbrella term. It encompasses everything from digital data to health data (including your DNA and genome) to the data collected from years and years of paperwork issued and filed by the...
View ArticleThe Online Identity Crisis
The intense identity aggregation of products like Google and Facebook is pushing users towards anonymous services. Whisper and Secret are both making headlines, each promising an escape from the...
View ArticleButterflies, Ants and the Internet of Things
Buckminster Fuller once wrote, “there is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” It’s true that often our capacity to look at things and truly understand their final...
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