In fact, someone recently pointed out the following reference in Wikipedia's article on Microsoft's Passport: “A prominent critic was Kim Cameron, the author of the Laws of Identity, who questioned Microsoft Passport in its violations of those laws. He has since become Microsoft's Chief ...
COMMON NAMES ARE NOT SINGULAR OR UNIQUE. Richard Garriott is COMMONLY known as “Richard Garriott” in some contexts (check Wikipedia), and COMMONLY known as Lord British in other contexts (go to a computer gaming convention). Bob Wills and Elvis are both “The King”. Despite these complexit...
This problem of disintermediation is one of the phenomena leading me to conclude that minimal disclosure technologies like U-Prove and Idemix will be absolutely essential to a durable system of reusable identities. With these technologies, the ability of the identity provider to disintermediate is bro...
Wikipediasays: Online polls conducted by leading Chinese web portals revealed poor acceptance of the software bynetizens. OnSinaandNetease, over 80% of poll participants said they would not consider or were not interested in using the software; onTencent, over 70% of poll participants said it wa...
If disintermediation is something you haven't thought about much, you might start with alook at wikipedia: Ineconomics,disintermediationis the removal ofintermediariesin asupply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of inte...