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April 24, 2007
Four one one - security
I have a lot of friends in the industry who have me talking about security on a regular basis. Its not clear, that the industry has a handle on its requirements.
Listen to the advocates and you would think that telecom is big brother. And sometimes I am shocked to hear of the level of sophisticated spying we have enabled.
More often than not I am faced with my fathers' adage; Never assume malice when incompetence is viable.
When it comes to meeting the needs for secure authenticated names, I believe the neglect is less than benign, but more than incompetence.
I think carriers do not know how to sell the idea of identity, and the reason they do not know the value the value themselves.
People are more than numbers (and URIs are only a piece of it as well). Number 6 may have been off target when he said I am not a number I am a name.
I am a presentitity with lots of alias's and psuedo presentities.
Finding the way to sell me a secure authenticated identity is not going to be about how I present myself to world, but how I present myself to world.... follow that.
Its about self control its about knowing when call screening is valuable and when I need to override it. I want my identity to be known and I want the people that know it to see it the way I want.
I feel like this could be a whole conference on its own.
Everything from SAML to Stanford's ergonomics labs. Not to mention Rob Fulop explaining flirting.
Not that I would know about flirting.
Posted by carl at April 24, 2007 02:22 AM