tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91156446058333841382024-03-13T21:16:17.380+01:00X de XavierUnos y ceros. A veces, en el orden adecuado.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-8882692453714386742010-05-18T08:05:00.003+01:002010-05-18T08:35:51.531+01:00OpenID<div>I'm a happy new user of <a href="http://myopenid.com/">http://myopenid.com</a>. </div><div><ul><li>Registration was very simple</li><li>The OpenID urls you get are nice (yourchoice.myopenid.com)</li><li>It supports multiple personas, i.e. during the signon process, you can choose differents sets of personal information to share with the requesting site</li><li>You get a detailed account activity report</li></ul></div><div>Out of laziness, I've been resisting for years to get a proper OpenID account. Sometimes I've been using the one provided with blogger.com; others, my Flickr photostream url. And then sometimes I've signed up to places using my google or twitter accounts. In fact, a site requesting access to my list of contacts during registration with my google account has been the trigger to take care of this.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers">Two html lines</a> have allowed me to use a vanity url (<a href="http://els.verg.es/xavier">http://els.verg.es/xavier</a>) and to avoid getting married to myopenid.com</div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-78986214060338587692008-09-01T20:58:00.003+01:002008-09-01T21:11:16.898+01:00My bank's money and my identityHilarious and insightful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E">radio sketch</a> (2 minutes) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_and_Webb">Mitchell and Webb</a> on <a href="http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/04/identity-theft-its-not-your-problem">identity theft</a><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CS9ptA3Ya9E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CS9ptA3Ya9E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br />via <a href="http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0808.html">Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram</a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-29040704063020284922006-12-19T15:44:00.000+01:002006-12-19T15:45:16.905+01:00My story about youFrom Bob Blakley's <a href="http://notabob.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-absurdity-of-owning-ones-identity.html"> On The Absurdity of "Owning One's Identity"</a>:<br /><blockquote><br />There are lots of versions of your identity out there, but we'll lump them into two broad categories: <span style="font-weight: bold;">your reputation</span> (the story others tell about you), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">your self-image</span> (the story you tell about yourself).<br />(...)<br />Your reputation is my story about you. You can't own this by definition; as soon as you own it, it's no longer my story about you; it instantly becomes an autobiography instead of a reputation.<br />(...)<br />In principle, controlling the information that makes up your self-image seems easy - you just choose what you tell to whom, and under what conditions. (...) You value your privacy, of course, but you also value other things, like the ability to get a credit card and the ability to travel on airplanes. (...) You have a choice between getting a credit and controlling information about yourself - if you want the credit, you have to give up information somebody else chooses, and you have to do it on somebody else's terms.<br /></blockquote><br />I learned about <a href="http://notabob.blogspot.com/">Ceci n'est pas un Bob</a> when he <a href="http://notabob.blogspot.com/2006/08/we-interrupt-this-program.html">recently left ibm</a>. Good reading if you are interested in identity, privacy, security and risk; and everyone should have at least a mild interest in them. Although I confess that I often skip Bob Blakley and <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/">Bruce Schneier</a> when checking my feeds; as <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson">Calvin says</a> (*), "<span style="font-style: italic;">Reality continues to ruin my life</span>", and I often don't feel like having my life ruined by their uncomfortable reality reports.<br /><br />(*) It is always a good thing to keep Calvin and Hobbes quotes at hand.<br /><br />(Post written while trying to cope with the huge frustration of seeing someone spreading a false and damaging story about me. Yuk.)-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com3