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LiveID Announces Beta Support For Information Cards & Windows CardSpace
Well, here's the news that many of you have been waiting for! Angus Logan , Technical Product Manager in LiveID has just announced that LiveID has launched beta support for information cards and Windows CardSpace . There's a great webcast and step-by-step Read More...
Dana Epps on RunAs Radio discussing CardSpace
Just listened in to Scorpion Software's Dana Epps' great interview on RunAs Radio discussing Information Cards, CardSpace and STS', interop and why usernames and password are a pain. WS-Trust vs. WS-Federation I do want to correct a small but important Read More...
Firefox 3.0 (likely) to support Windows CardSpace
In case you missed it, Mozilla's Percy Cabello has just announced the list of features it's planning on including in Firefox 3.0 . Among these features are integrated support for identity selectors such as Windows CardSpace :) This is awesome news and Read More...
Why don't Microsoft's own sites support CardSpace?
This is a question I am hearing with increasing frequency as I talk to people about why, how and when they might support information cards. Essentially, it comes down to three reasons: History Perceptions Timing Alas, some of Microsoft's prior forays Read More...
Identity discussion on Run As Radio
A couple of weeks ago at TechEd 2007, I was invited to discuss the world of identity with Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes for RunAs Radio - the Internet audio talk show for IT Professionals. Greg just announced that the interview is now live for your Read More...
Announcing the Information Card Icon
[Update: 6/25/2007 @ 13:40 PST] Please note: This icon is NOT a Windows CardSpace Icon. It's an icon to symbolize that a site or application supports Information Cards, regardless of the identity selector used to submit an Information Token associated Read More...
"Phishing Resistant" OpenID spec published
Mike Jones has just posted news that VeriSign's David Recordon has just published a proposed "OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0" spec . This spec is essentially the culmination of several months of effort by OpenID community to deliver Read More...
Did the chicken really come first?
Someone who I'll keep anonymous just mailed me in relation to my post yesterday: I know you didn't ask (nor was it your point) -- but the Egg came first. It was laid by some animal that was really, really genetically close to a chicken. I have to say, Read More...
The Chicken and the Egg
You all know the age old question: "who came first, the chicken or the egg". Well, there's been some considerable discussion of late on the subject of how to help foster the growth of adoption of Information Cards and identity selectors such as Windows Read More...
Dominick going CardSpace crazy!
Y'know, sometimes you meet someone who needs a life, but is clearly having so much fun and churning out useful things that you're kinda glad they don't! Dominick is one such guy! ;) Over the last couple of weeks, Dominick has churned out not just an updated Read More...
Shibboleth to support Information Cards
Mike Jones has posted the news that Internet2 (the advanced networking consortium) announced last week that they are adding support for information cards to the Shibboleth federated authentication infrastructure . This is fantastic news for the millions Read More...
The world's simplest CardSpace demo source code
A few weeks ago I published a couple of screencasts on Channel9. The first illustrated the Windows CardSpace user experience and how you can add support for information cards to your site with very little code. The second went on to demonstrate how to Read More...
Playing with the Windows CardSpace sandbox
For those that are not aware, several months ago, we launched the Windows CardSpace “Sandbox” that you can play with to try out the CardSpace experience. Whilst many of you have managed to work out how to register and sign-in, many of you have experienced Read More...
TSA Looses a hard-drive containing 100,000 names, social security numbers and payroll info
Read the story here: http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/07/tsa_loses_hard_drive/ The TSA doesn't know whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen. <Snip/> They are unsure whether the data was encrypted or not. I don't want to sound Read More...
What happens when Identity goes wrong?
If you ever wondered why Kim worked so hard to form the 7 Laws of Identity , you *MUST* watch this short video! http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 Whilst funny, it's also shockingly potent. Read More...
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