Privacy is in the eye of the beholder. From time to time something happens that gives spectacular confirmation of that simple statement. Consider what happened in Italy just few hours ago. “L’agenzia delle entrate”, the Italian tax agency, published on their website the all tax declarations filed in Italy in 2006 (story in…
2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in Kuala Lumpur & Singapore, and of course I am totally jetlagged and I can’t sleep at all. Hence I’ll kill some time writing the customarily post I do every April for this feed’s birthday (former installments: 2004, 2005, 2006,…
On a flight between Seattle and Tokyo. I’ve just put down The Big Switch, and decided it’s time to write about cloud computing and how identity management is going to play a key role for the success of the new paradigm. As you go though this post, please remember that (as always) you…
Before presenting in a country I never visited I always try to read about the local culture and understand the basic do’s and don’ts. Besides being IMHO a basic form of respect for your hosts, this helps you avoiding VERY embarrassing situations that you’d never ever figure out on your own. If you…
Well, I really really enjoyed going to RSA. As I foresaw, more than the event itself I really appreciated the chance of meeting with very smart people: the Concordia and the OSIS events were truly exceptional in this sense. Axel captured some of that spirit here. Just to mention a few notable encounters:…
The Cardspace landing page on MSDN has now a reference (link at the very top) to a PDF copy of the chapter 2 of “Understanding Windows CardSpace“, which features the series layout for side comments & perspective boxes (mentioned here). Thanks to everybody who helped making this happen. Enjoy! 🙂
On the 23rd I’ll be in Singapore, practically my third home, and will present at the Singapore’s Regional Architect Forum (the famous RAF). There is something in that country that charmed me already during my first visit in ’89, and every time I have half a chance I try to go visit. Meeting…
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in Kuala Lumpur, at the IASA’s IT Architect Regional Forum Conference; I will present on identity in the context of S+S and cloud services, which happens to be the topic that intrigues me the most nowadays. I am really excited for the session, but even more…
Few weeks ago Caleb and I had a nice phone interview with Jack Vaughan, during which we gave a short intro to CardSpace and mentioned the book; the result is a 6 mins podcast (available here). Thanks Jack & SearchWinDevelopment!
Well, well, well. I was strolling trough the vendor booths at the RSA exposition (which, by the way, is really very interesting) when my eyes were caught by a peculiar scene: [snip] Yes, it is what it seems: a username & password pair on a PostIT! To be honest, after talking with the…