Posts Tagged ‘security’
Recommended article: rethinking passwords
Posted by: clare on: March 15, 2013
William Cheswick‘s recent CACM article, Rethinking Passwords, is an excellent and timely read. As Cheswick points out, there is “an authentication plague upon the land”, with everyday internet users running dozens of accounts that all require passwords. Account providers often enforce inconsistent and incomprehensible rules about each of those passwords (“at least 6 characters, but [...]
Where are we on open social networking?
Posted by: clare on: November 27, 2011
Once upon a time, everyone was talking about the concept of open social networking: we saw a brave new world where social networking corporations wouldn’t hold our data in proprietary formats, where we’d have ownership of and access to our data. What’s the latest on that, people? Of course, Diaspora has been widely publicised as [...]
