It was announced last week that “passport cards that Americans can use to travel to other nearby countries will have a technology that allows information on the card to be read from a distance.” Doesn’t it make you feel warmy, fuzzy and safe that your Identity can be read without your permission by anyone within 20 feet? I think I’d rather stand in line a bit longer.

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Ok. Here’s some off the wall insight into how my mind works, or doesn’t work, depending on your point of view.

The Liberty Alliance’s recent announcement of companies that passed Full-Matrix SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing spoke of building a build a “more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide.”

Ashish Jain reported in his blog today that “trust is the business word for love.”

My niece, Katie Larsen, posted a music video on her blog that suggested “cello tape” (or “scotch tape” to us on the US side of the pond) as a metaphor for love.

Does that mean that identity federation is the cello tape that ties the business world together?

Perhaps Eve Maler could write a song about this to be performed at the next Identity gathering. Eve?

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