bandit: helping to build the identity fabric.

some weeks ago novell announced the bundling of eclipse higgins and novell's bandit project which should combine ms cardspace with open source code.

Bridge Multiple Identity Systems to Provide a Consistent Experience of Identity | report

kim cameron, ms, laws of identity
liberty alliance
OpenId, ...

wondering what i will hear tomorrow. especially from the chap of the burton group, robin wiltson sun, ...

and all this effort just because of what: ¿convenience?

identity thefts less damaging than has been reported? ftc study, 2003 | update februrary 2007

... so it appears that identity theft, and related fraud, may find itself in the family of security problems whose sociological aspects present greater obstacles than can be resolved by reducing technological risks. computers are particularly impotent in dealing with misuse situations where rewards are high, penalties may be small, attacks can be varied and numerous, and detection is difficult. unless potential losses truly outweigh increased security costs, there is little incentive to change the status quo. | rebecca t. mercuri, communications of the acm, may 2006.

what the hell do they mean by identity broker?
identity mashup 2006, some clarification about what higgins means and what it means when they talk about unique unique identifiers, ...