I was having a rant with a colleague the other day about privacy and anonymity. It started with a comment that the Aussies were in a tizzy because the government was going to make it legal for businesses to monitor employee’s email. I was reminding my friend (who didn’t need reminding) that it’s [...]

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I had the opportunity to sit in on a Eurekify webcast on Wednesday outlining and demoing the new V4 version of their Role & Compliance Management Server. I haven’t personally worked with Eurekify products for a few years. They are certainly well known for their Sage product, which performed enterprise role discovery/mining. [...]

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So, who owns your identity? The naive among us might suppose that the individual is entitled to his identity, and that he owns it. If so, you’d get a lot of disagreement from the organizations. Doctors say they own the medical records, because they created it - literally wrote it in a file folder. Credit Reporting agencies will tell you that they own your credit file. The government will tell you they own your drivers license and passport — they just let you use them, and can demand their return at any time.

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The news this week has included several articles (AFP feed linked here) noting that the German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s fingerprints were published, along with a “how to” article on creating a fake set of fingerprints. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) allegedly collected the fingerprints from a water glass. The CCC published the [...]

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We’ve re-launched our Blog here at LiveBolt Identity, so I’ve decided to start with a “Back to Basics” approach for my first few posts.
I’ve been thinking about Identity for more than a decade now. It started with email systems, proceeded to directories and web access control systems and moved on to PKI and Identity Management [...]

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