Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer. The idea was made famous by a New Yorker cartoon that says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”. The Problems with Digital Identity.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Think of them like an internet-native business that's collectively owned and managed by its members. Decisions are governed by proposals and voting to ensure everyone in the organization has a voice. For example, over the last decade, national identity projects undertaken by a government have become more common.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Metasystems employ protocols, governance, and convention to provide interoperability between the systems they comprise. Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. Credit cards.

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Phil Windley

MAY 30, 2018

In the physical world, people collect and manage identity credentials 1 from various sources including governments, financial institutions, schools, businesses, family, colleagues, and friends. Mutual exchange of keys is a big step up from SSL-mediated transactions on the Web where only one-side is cryptographically authenticated.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems. Government. Registration is free for Government attendees. Register Now! Space is Limited.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

The Governance Layer. This makes it ideal for use in credential verification where the clients may not have internet access for a period of time, a key requirement for universal adoption of digital credentials. Decentralized Discovery and Governance of the Ledger. The Sovrin Stack comprises four layers: The Ledger Layer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Chance of succeeding: The success or failure will probably be governed by the nature of the applications. Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet. More conservative companies are slowly following.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

You can’t wipe all your info off the internet — but you can make it less available There are two key concepts in information security : threat model and attack surface. When it comes to the internet, it’s nearly impossible to collapse your attack surface to zero — you’ll never achieve that without going into witness protection.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

One common refrain is "blockchains don't need trust (governance) frameworks." Another goes "the point of blockchain is to avoid governance." I've written a lot about distributed ledgers, Sovrin, governance, and decentralization over the past several years. An Internet for Identity (Aug 2016). Is Sovrin Decentralized?

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Phil Windley

JULY 14, 2018

In his one-on-one at the event, Vitalik Buterin said “Ultimately, if self sovereign user authentication technology ends up totally failing, that means that it is very difficult for the blockchain space to achieve substantial mass adoption.” But it was the conversations I had with people at the event that really made it interesting.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 15, 2024

Especially in the case of the education industry, which contributes a large amount of online learning resources to the internet, digital rights management becomes even more important. Since licensing on educational content can change or expire, the embed codes allow updating the entire information. Why is DRM Important?

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 14, 2010

Certificates provide two purposes: Authenticating the server to the client Providing encryption between the server and the client I will cover the authenticating the server to the client in this part 1 post, and will write a part 2 post that handles the second part of encryption. Sure, I trust the state government.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Lately, he has been addressing the consumer technology problems highlighted during the pandemic, including the lack of access to broadband at home in rural areas, an education gap with children due to limited internet access, and a threat to privacy with the introduction of contact tracing. We’re all more dependent on the internet now.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. What was compromised: Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases driver license numbers and credit card information. government agencies.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I highly recommend that, before posting yourself dancing on the internet, that you do your fair share of inner work and make sure you’re at a place where you can handle what comes with that. All day I was on the phone, like, “Hey, Steve, do you know about me on the internet?” I just work on myself and show up authentically every day.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. What was compromised: Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases drivers' license numbers and credit card information. Government agencies.

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Dataconomy

MAY 19, 2023

Desktop as a Service is a cloud computing model that delivers virtual desktop environments to end-users over the internet. With DaaS, users can access their virtual desktops from any device with an internet connection, allowing for increased mobility and flexibility.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Apple to to basically say, you know, you may own the phone, but you're licensing the software and therefore we get to control how you, what you do with that phone. Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Apple to to basically say, you know, you may own the phone, but you're licensing the software and therefore we get to control how you, what you do with that phone. Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government.

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