Jiri’s Notepad

Phil Wainewright: “Individuals do not need digital identities. They simply need to be able to control and manage their various digital profiles, assigning the appropriate attributes to each according to their context. “

Note: I started writing this piece last week, only to find out that most of my points are being (or had been) discussed by others. In the end, I decided that having several unfinished essays on the desktop is way too depressing and I finished it anyway.

Last week the Register published an article outlining woes with certificates […]

I have attended a talk by Rebecca Mercuri, who seems to be one of the most prominment and cited experts on security of electronic voting. Some notes from the talk follow.
A list of requirements specific to for voting was mentioned including short timeframe for use of the system, long term period between uses, wide distribution, […]