Fun Communications made a neat little site http://idtheft.fun.de/ that lets you mount a man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against your OpenID provider of choice. It is useful for testing and we would suggest people check out their own provider, the results may be interesting. Mike Jones used the site to check out a couple providers [...]
Vidoop / ConfIdent Technologiesâ„¢ will be exhibiting at this years InnoTech Oregon. Come see us at booth 506 and learn about our cool online security and identity technologies.
“InnoTech, celebrating 5 years as the region’s most comprehensive business and technology event, offers two full days of conference sessions (Wednesday, April 16 & Thursday, April [...]
The founders of Vidoop launched ConfIdent Technologies LLC this week at the RSA conference. ConfIdentâ„¢ will work to serve the unique needs of the enterprise customer. ConfIdent Technologiesâ„¢ is a completely separate company and is going to license it’s RecoginitionAUTHâ„¢ technology to financial institutions, e-commerce websites, and corporations for use on VPN and [...]
What? So this is a big leap for Ma.gnolia and OpenID… everyone’s favorite social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia has changed their join and sign-in pages and will now require users to sign up with a verified identity before they can contribute to the Ma.gnolia community…
Why such a change? Here is an excerpt from their most recent [...]
As a regular user of the intertubes I am always looking for ways to make my web browsing a quicker and simpler experience. Here are a couple tips I have come up with…
1. Get an OpenID. True, not all sites support it, but for the ones that do using your OpenID to login [...]
Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, published a famous observation in a 1964. He basically said, “It seems like the number of transistors we can put on a processor doubles about every two years.” Popularly called Moore’s Law, this observation has been generalized to say that computing power in general follows an exponentially increasing trend.
My [...]
In 1770, Wolfgang von Kempelen created what was perhaps the world’s earliest innovation in the field of artificial intelligence: an automaton known as the Mechanical Turk that was capable of defeating all but the most skilled of chess players of the time. It was a mechanical marvel, and Kempelen would give demonstrations for some of [...]