Continuations

A few days ago I wrote about my support of the defense fund for Barrett Brown. One of the reasons regulators and legislators seem to think we need such over the top draconian sentences is because we have the wrong security model for payments in particular and authentication more generally. Information will continue to leak – that is it’s nature. It should not be possible for me to transact in your account simply by having information on your account. Instead we need to broadly embrace two fac...

I am taking today off from my mini-series on debt because of something that I believe will turn out to be important. Google announced this week that they would become a provider of authentication under a scheme based on OpenID. While there are several modifications to the OpenID standard, one of them is crucial. In Google’s scheme endusers use their gmail address instead of a URL to identify themselves to accepting sites. I believe that this is a crucial step towards widespread consumer adopt...