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Geek of the Week: Tech vet Dick Hardt searches for a better way to verify your ?internet identity?

GeekWire

Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. back in 2005.

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DID Messaging: A Batphone for Everyone

Phil Windley

Summary: DID Messaging can provide a secure, authenticated, and verified channel for every relationship you have. In my last post, I wrote about a demo given by BCGov, Spark NZ, and Streetcred ID at the last Internet Identity Workshop. That demo caused a lot of people to download and try out Streetcred ID's digital wallet.

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The Laws of Identity

Phil Windley

It's no coincidence that Internet Identity Workshop got started in 2005. Many people were talking about user-centric identity and developing ideas about how we might be able to create an identity layer for the Internet. The Internet was created without any way to identify the people who used it.

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