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{ Monthly Archives } September 2007

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work ini­ti­at­ive; see the intro­duc­tion for more con­text. Prob­ably the biggest dis­cus­sion we had in the entire policy dis­cus­sion was whether to let Sun employ­ees use fake or fic­ti­tious names, or whether to force the use of real names in what the OpenID simple regis­tra­tion exten­sion calls the fullname. […]

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2007 09 25 Identity and Privacy Comments (1)

Navigating Sites

I was chat­ting with Norm Walsh this morn­ing, and he poin­ted me at the nav­ig­a­tion tool­bar he uses for read­ing spe­cific­a­tions. It’s one of those small things that makes the web world more func­tional. I often miss a couple of days of posts from some blog­ger on my not-quite-every-day list and this makes start­ing on […]

2007 09 24 Technology
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Sun’s OpenID IdP: Data Governance

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work ini­ti­at­ive; see the intro­duc­tion for more con­text. Data gov­ernance is the term used for know­ing what hap­pens to the data that is stored, par­tic­u­larly when that data has any PII (per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able inform­a­tion), which the OpenID IdP does. Using OpenID isn’t the reason we keep this inform­a­tion; any […]

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2007 09 21 Identity and Privacy Comments (2)

Facebook Apps and Profiles

So I’m not really into the Face­book thing, but occa­sion­ally I hop on and see what people are up to. I’ve noticed a few of my friends have some inter­est­ing look­ing apps on their pro­file pages, and figured I might try some of them out. Except for, every single one I’ve looked at so far […]

2007 09 21 Identity and Privacy Comments (1)

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Business Purpose

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work ini­ti­at­ive; see the intro­duc­tion for more con­text. One of the inter­est­ing things about secur­ity is that you can never make any­thing 100% secure. You need to fig­ure out what the risks are, how likely they are to occur, and what the dam­age will be if some­thing bad does […]

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2007 09 20 Identity and Privacy Comments (2)

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Introduction

This is the first of a series of posts on Sun Microsys­tem’s OpenID@Work ser­vice, which is an OpenID Iden­tity Pro­vider avail­able for use by Sun employ­ees. [Update: I was asked what the pur­pose of these post­ings is — it’s simply to share our exper­i­ences in the hope that they’re help­ful to oth­ers.] I was part […]

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2007 09 19 Identity and Privacy Comments (2)