Posts with keyword: purpose+centric

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We Need More Than a Selector

Wed Nov 11 09:36:00 2009

If you glance at Johannes Ernst's latest blog post, Why We Really Don't Need an "Identity Selector", you might think he's speaking out against identity clients, but in reality, he's speaking out against identity "selectors." That is, the idea that the most important, useful feature of such a client is "selecting" an identity. He says: The correct product is not a "selector". It also must be: An identity "de-selector", with which the user can become anonymous again (or perhaps even remove all the information from the site which was conveyed during the "identity selection" phase). The much-desired "single sign
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The Futility of Positively Identifying Commenters

Tue Sep 29 09:44:00 2009

Image by El Tipo Gráfico via Flickr A recent NY Times article discusses the Chinese order for Web sites to register and post comments using their true identities. Of course, in a totalitarian regime (are we calling China that these days?) identity is a tool that the state uses to control dissent and it's clear that's what's behind this. This article caught my attention because of the attention that SideWiki has been getting this week. John Gillmore said "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." SideWiki is an example of how what China's attempting is ultimately
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