Category Kantara initiative

Is 118800 a red herring?

You know what? I’m actually starting to feel twinges of sympathy for the folks at Connectivity. There are two pieces in the Guardian devoted to the suspension of their mobile directory enquiries services, one from yesterday and one from today.…

Home Office dismisses ID Card hack

Those of you with any interest in cricket will know that today is the first day of the 4th Test Match between Australia and England for the Ashes. With the series standing at 1-0 to England (2 matches having ended…

The relentless march of progress

March 2006 – UK introduces RFID-enabled, ICAO-compliant ‘e-passports’; March 2007 – Adam Laurie demonstrates ability to unlock e-passport chip data for ‘read’ access; August 2008 – Jeroen van Beek demonstrates ability to clone e-passport chip and implant bogus images; August…

Can the UK ID scheme be operated securely?

Several people I’ve spoken to recently have remarked that real-time social media like Twitter seem to reduce the frequency with which they blog… and I suspect it’s the same for me. It’s partly because Twitter soaks up time, and partly…

Winners of the 2009 IDDY Award will be in good company…

The IDDY Award was designed to shine a spotlight on the individuals and organizations responsible for developing identity-enabled applications and services that deliver real benefits to enterprises, governments, organizations and people.  Previous recipients of the IDDY represent a wide range…