3 years of blabbering
Ah, BTW it’s more than 3 years that I preach from this soapbox š
W for WS-Policy
WS-Policy made it as well! It was finally submitted to a standard body: W3C was the logical choice, given the “meta” personality of the specification.The authors (BEA Systems Inc, IBM, Microsoft, SAP AG, Sonic Software, Verisign) are joined in the submission by an impressive list of co-submitter: Adobe Systems Incorporated, CA, Ericsson, IONA…
MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Application Platform Technologies in Manufacturing (Level 200)
This Monday (April, the 24th,, at 11AM Pacific Time) Iām scheduled to deliver a positioning webcast, during which I will suggest some use of WinFx (excluding WPF) to address common issues in Manufacturing. Abstracts and subscriptions are available at the longest URL ever, that I will hide for your viewing convenience here. Abstract:…
On Identity [mis]Management & Minority Report
While I’m on the topic, I just recalled something that never fails to bother me everytime I watch Minority Report. We spent rivers of virtual inks on many ppts, showing how adopting a federation approach saves you from odd situations in which an employee who resigned from its company is still able to…
Memorable sentence about passwords
As announced, the Longhorn Server SDR is here! I’m happily attending a session delivered by our Stuart Kwan, naturally about Identity. While exploring the challenges that a user faces while dealing with his many passwords, and the tendency to reuse the same credentials on multiple websites, he came out wiht a memorable (and…
Paper: Why phishing works
An interesting paper, which decomposes the effectiveness of phishing through the analysis of its tricks arsenal. Infocard, the high assurance certificates and the completeness of the info given to the user by the Identity Selector address directly some of the concerns, while others are dispelled by the nature of the system itself (see older posts on…