Archive for the 'Identity' Category
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
Yazan: Charles | 20 February 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
This is a really old cartoon, that I kept since 1993… What wasn’t a problem at those times, is one now since we’ll be approching the 2 billions Internet users frontier really soon!
Cartoon by Peter Steiner. The New Yorker, July 5, 1993 issue (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) page 61.
Facebook ID Theft can put you in REAL problem
Yazan: Charles | 12 February 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
Radio Canada reported a sad Facebook story:
A student at the University of PEI (Prince Edward Island), Adam W. Morrison, has been suspected of wanting to commit a killing because of a false Facebook profile published on a Web site popular networking.
When the young Morrison has created its profile on the site Facebook, he was [...]
ID Theft on dating websites
Yazan: Charles | 12 February 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
On dating websites, people are most often with a simple nickname. This culture of anonymity has several consequences. Of course, you think of the danger of the bad meeting. But we can also mention the case of a friend who does not necessarily want you well and that encourages members to contact you…
Identity Theft [...]
Why do we wanna certify comments on blog?
Yazan: Charles | 12 February 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
This is a good question, why someone would left a comment on a blog with my ID and without my permission except for playing around with my online repution?
What happened to Doodee’s Thailand might be a good answer too:
I Did Not Leave a Comment on Your Blog or Forum
If you’ve arrived at this blog by [...]
When Seth Godin isn’t Seth Godin
Yazan: Charles | 04 February 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
This a story found on problogger:
Last week I had a quick conversation with Seth Godin via email about Twitter and in passing I mentioned his Twitter account. I was shocked to get a response to him saying that he doesn’t use Twitter and that the account I was referring to was actually being run by someone [...]
Yahoo! meets OpenID
Yazan: Charles | 17 January 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity
Congratulation to Yahoo! for becoming an OpenID provider:
“Are you tired of creating a new account on every web site you use? Do you avoid new web sites because they come with yet another username and password? Do you paste stickies with password hints all over your computer monitor?
OpenID is an open technology standard that solves [...]
Another Identity theft on FaceBook
Yazan: Charles | 17 January 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
Just found a very interesting article on Le Monde today about identity theft on FaceBook:
“Who knows Rachel Bekerman? Based on her Facebook’s photo, Rachel Bekerman is a young blond woman, with a pleasant face. She says very little information about her private life: she was born on August 17, but the year is not specified. Instead, it [...]
We’ll support DataPortability.org
Yazan: Charles | 15 January 2008 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, News
Data Portability is a really strong topic to us because you own the data so you have to be able to take them with you everywhere you go.
Blogger implement OpenID comment
Yazan: Charles | 30 November 2007 | Comments
Categories: Identity
The need to know who you’re talking to on Internet starts to be stronger and stronger. After WordPress and LiveJournal, it’s know the turn of Bloggers to implement OpenID comment on their platefrom, what about TypePad?
Blogger in Draft now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting, in your blogs’ Settings | Comments tab:
(OpenID comments work in both [...]
About 25 million people confidential data “lost” by the British Government
Yazan: Charles | 21 November 2007 | Comments
Categories: Digital Identity, Identity, Identity Theft, MyID.is
I’m amazed when I see this kind of HUGE BUG!
25 millions…, how could that be? I let you read the article of Alice Milesfrom Times, which we’ll more readable than my english :
“Idiots. Utter, unbelievable, jaw-dropping, unpardonable idiots. It is beyond farce, past comprehension, criminally irresponsible and beneath contempt.
All those lectures from government and authorities [...]
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