I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former interests of mine are just too good not to share. While evangelizing the web capabilities of WCF introduced in the framework 3.5, one of the most recurring questions was about hiding the svc extension for WCF services. That…
Kim just posted a great piece about “an account this week describing an attack on the use of CardSpace within Internet Explorer”. I won’t add anything, because his post is just perfect as it is: I strongly suggest you go read it in its entirety. Here a quote: “Students at Ruhr Universitat Bochum…
I am horribly behind schedule with my blog, I still have to post a wrapup of IIW but didn’t find the time so far; however I want to quickly comment on the recent coverage of the Fedlet (see Pat himself here and Paul here). I attended the nice IIW session during which Pat…
In the last week or so Paul Madsen made at least a couple of posts with strong visual components: one that resumed my old 2005 post on a notation for message crypto, the other on Feynman diagrams. Nice! Paul, when I am in that mood I find especially pleasant to thumb through Tufte:…
…or I clicked “Publish” instead of “Save Draft”. Anyway, the net result is that a post was erroneously published in draft format; since it was during the lunch break, it had the time to propagate and be reaggregated in a number of feeds. Luckily I didn’t write anything especially bad, it’s just that it was…
In short. I make some considerations about what kind of info ends up in a claim, and the things we expect will happen when those info are processed. I then describe what I call infrastructure claims, for the lack of a better term, and their role in authorization; and I introduce the R-STS…
Privacy is in the eye of the beholder. From time to time something happens that gives spectacular confirmation of that simple statement. Consider what happened in Italy just few hours ago. “L’agenzia delle entrate”, the Italian tax agency, published on their website the all tax declarations filed in Italy in 2006 (story in…
2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in Kuala Lumpur & Singapore, and of course I am totally jetlagged and I can’t sleep at all. Hence I’ll kill some time writing the customarily post I do every April for this feed’s birthday (former installments: 2004, 2005, 2006,…
On a flight between Seattle and Tokyo. I’ve just put down The Big Switch, and decided it’s time to write about cloud computing and how identity management is going to play a key role for the success of the new paradigm. As you go though this post, please remember that (as always) you…
Before presenting in a country I never visited I always try to read about the local culture and understand the basic do’s and don’ts. Besides being IMHO a basic form of respect for your hosts, this helps you avoiding VERY embarrassing situations that you’d never ever figure out on your own. If you…