Getting rid of passwords has never been the end goal, not really. The mission has always been to make digital life simpler and safer for everyone, and to give organizations the ability to operate and deliver services securely, without unnecessary friction. Moving to phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication is a critical part of that, but it doesn’t
I’m back from an exhilarating, albeit tiring, week at the FIDO Alliance’s annual Authenticate conference. As you probably already know, I recently joined the Alliance as Chief Technology Officer, which made this experience a little bit different than years past. There is a lot going on in the digital identity ecosystem right now, which really
In a prior post I talked about the backlash against the “Real Names” policy that Google has instituted for it’s Google+ social network. The resulting nymwars are in full force, and drew me into a very interesting twitter back-and-forth between Kevin Marks, myself and Tim O’Reilly over the weekend, which Kaliya (or IdentityWoman, as she
The “Real Names” debate has been fascinating to watch, because it such an intriguing melange of issues – social conventions, technical requirements, best practices, community responsibility – rolled into what would on the surface seem to be a very simple problem. After all, what we’re really talking about is what value to let people put
