How Infocard prevents phishing, in practice

I recently had a hot debate about how Infocard prevents phising; now everytime I see the “What’s in your wallet?” commercial the arguments come back in mind, so I guess the only way to break free from them is going again through it. So here it’s how it goes [:)] Disclaimer: for extensive coverage of Infocard and the Identity Metasystem,…

WS-Plate

WS-Plate

Ahhh, finally. Getting a personalized plate was one of the things I was looking for when I relocated to the States.. and in record time, I got one which pays homage to one of my biggest passions! [:)]

bromio & 64 bits

Today my most excellent colleagues Volker, Neil and Trudy sent me what I can define as just the last expression of that creativity that makes so pleasant to be in this team [:)] <IMG src="http://www.maseghepensu.it/oldblogrecovery/bottle.jpg" mce_src="http://www.maseghepensu.it/oldblogrecovery/bottle.jpg" <IMG src="http://www.maseghepensu.it/oldblogrecovery/label.jpg" mce_src="http://www.maseghepensu.it/oldblogrecovery/label.jpg"

WS-Survey is upon us

Now it’s the moment to make YOUR vision count! Let us know what is your take on Connected Systems & Web Services, by taking this survey: you’ll have the chance to influence the next wave of guidance, and elicit products improvement… sounds worth few mins, isn’t it [;)] Spread the word!

The church of t4T

Hello there.I’d like to surface a debate I had recently about the application of the four tenets, or t4T for brevity. Please note my blog disclaimer, which applies to all my post even when I don’t explicitly mention it. Behind object orientation there’s Algebra: the idea of classes, methods, equivalence operators… many of the concepts…

InfoCard and CT imagery

When I was dealing with the first years of my CS degree, I complained all the time that most of the exams were pure math: everybody kept saying that it would have been a good basis for the advanced topics, yadda yadda but I was’t so inclined to see that strategic value after days and…

maybe a bit stale, but still noteworthy: WS-Management flies toward standardization

Among the tons of things which happened during my blogout (from “blackout”: neologism indicating a timeframe without posts [:)]), there was the push for WS-Management standardization: see http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-15WSManagementSpecsPR.mspx. Reminder: WS-Management is NOT about management OF web services, it’s rather enabling the management of system and devices VIA web services. Some names of the proponents:…