Comments for Discovering Identity

Comment on Reputation, Street Cred and Identity Assurance by Mark Dixon

Mark Dixon — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:45:07 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Drummond. I would be honored to be a Funding Trust Anchor.

Comment on Reputation, Street Cred and Identity Assurance by Drummond Reed

Drummond Reed — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:34:13 +0000

Mark, great post. It so wonderfully articulates the stance of a trust anchor in the Respect Trust Framework, I’d like to invite you to be a Founding Trust Anchor. I’ll contact you RE details. (For anyone else who is interested, details of the Founding Trust Anchor program is in the “Building Lasting Trust” paper that Mark’s post references.)

Thanks, =Drummond

Comment on Scarce Interest in Verifying my Identity by Laura Deitch

Laura Deitch — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:53:06 +0000

I feel that people might not have got options to secure their identity from spammers and hackers but most of them would have some day or other would have been suffered from identity theft.

With the growing technology spammers and hackers are also gaining knowledge and updating themselves to attack personal details of people. But simultaneously, security service providers are gradually developing ways to prevent identity theft. I am aware of one such service provider
whose Telephone Verification, Two-Factor Authentication, and PhoneID prevent credit card and online fraud considerably. Their global scalability and easy integration is the main USP which has helped them to spread their services around the globe. I would like you to watch their product demos http://www.telesign.com/products-demos/ and Find them @ Facebook.

Comment on Remembering Steve Jobs by Mark Dixon

Mark Dixon — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:02:07 +0000

Cory:

Thanks for your kind comments. I appreciate you stopping by.

Mark

Comment on Remembering Steve Jobs by Cory Hogan

Cory Hogan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:52:39 +0000

Mark, thanks for your honest self-reflection on Job’s advice to follow one’s heart. I share similar feelings and appreciate the virtual camaraderie.

Keep on blogging.

Comment on User Attributes – Part of Identity? by Anil John

Anil John — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:15:26 +0000

Good point! I posted my response “User Attributes – More than Identity” @ http://blog.aniltj.org/2011/10/user-attributes-more-than-identity.html

Comment on User Attributes – Part of Identity? by Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:30:33 +0000

Programmers would tend to think that attributes MUST be stored in the directory – how else would they get at them? But I agree with you – there’s a finite, but uncountably large, number of attributes which make up an identity – and the number is ever expanding.

Comment on Scarce Interest in Verifying my Identity by Brad

Brad — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:45:57 +0000

Mark -

I think this is a LOA issue. Verifying the author of a blog is probably really low on people’s priority list. If there is something posted on your blog I will assume that it’s from you … if it’s not really from you does it matter much? ( … it does matter but not so much from a “risk” perspective). It’s also a really loose implementation of Federation (really loose). To post to your blog site you would have to authenticate to your blog host … I am trusting that you authenticated before posting and that because of that you are the person that you claim to be on your blog.

Comment on Scarce Interest in Verifying my Identity by pat

pat — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:43:24 +0000

Agree that people don’t care about validation of online identities. The very phrase is boring, unless it strikes us as Big Brother.
We do care, though, about knowing how much to trust someone on craigslist or a dating site or airbnb. The internet is one big knock-knock moment: do we open the door this time, or not?

Comment on Scarce Interest in Verifying my Identity by Ramses Moya

Ramses Moya — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:05:19 +0000

Well – your blog is read… so it could be a combination of 2 and 3…

I actually think there is a 4th…

People don’t do much for badges… and the reason for it is that because of the advertising industry we live and participate in – people are now accustomed to ignore 1/3 of the page we read. All that extra information that includes adds receive much less of our attention – and so we are eng to only go for the block of text that is the meat of the blog.

When a person reads the blog and finds it interesting… they go to the comments… if they are curious they go for the rest of the screen and look at older posts, your tweets etc..

I think there is a genuine interest in validation of identities – but the way that they have modelled it, it simply blends in an area that we have trained ourselves to ignore with our eyes