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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Transformational Government
John Suffolk’s blog isn’t taking comments from me for some reason (nothing personal I’m sure). So I’ll put my latest on his latest here instead: John – delighted to see you pick this up Jerry’s gauntlet with a thorough and reasoned post. You say “This seems hugely simplistic” …but there is a straightforward choice to […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
I reckon Drummond Reed over in the US is showing us the way to go in the new Open ID/ICF white paper(Info Card Foundation press release) : Entitled Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government, the paper explains the approach both foundations are taking to enable open, Internet-scale trust networks using OpenID and Information Cards. “Open […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Hurrah! The gold-standard benighted ID card protects us from dangerous radicals like Adam Laurie….for about 12 minutes (says the often vile Daily Mail): With a few more keystrokes on his computer, Laurie changes the cloned card so that whereas the original card holder was not entitled to benefits, the cloned chip now reads ‘Entitled to […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Another Jerry Fishenden post crying out for comment from HMG’s blogging CIO John Suffolk. In the killer graph, green line is public sector IT spend, blue line total inputs, and red line is productivity. Click to enlarge:
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Writing on Microsoft’s Technet, Jesper M. Johansson has produced a well-reasoned article about ID. Part 1 of his article explains the impossibility – and folly – of trying to bind a person with a single identity; and how such a system would cause many more problems than it would solve. Does the UK IPS have […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Her Majesty’s Government’s CIO discusses on his new blog the 10-year future of the IT industry. He asks us to consider a world where: The concept of desktop disappears…payment comes from infrastructure as a service…things like ERP become a sequence of transactions…the number of data centres will be dramatically reduced… Public and private clouds will […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
The database carrying the details of 11m children in the UK will be accessible by 390,000 users making the system highly vulnerable at thousands of endpoints. “Why the government has created this security headache in the first place, particularly when their track record on data handling raises serious questions, is something of a mystery”…said Richard […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, July 13th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Sir Bonar writes: The public needs to understand two things. First is that on their own people’s identities are inherently insecure. My own identity, for example, is Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG, KCVO. Well and good, you might say. But what if some Tom, Dick or Harry, or perhaps an immigrant, shall we say from Albania […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, July 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Not only are our passports too expensive (cf €59 for the Irish); they leak our personal details through their insecure RFID chips. This is far from Ideal. This, it seems, is the device we need to cure the latter problem:
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 10th, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Hmm. Weird one. Would love an explanation and direction from the experts out there. Today I received this email: From: “Alan Olding” *alamo@waitrose.com* Date: 9 July 2009 11:57:26 GMT+01:00 To: Ruth Kennedy Subject: DVLA Prize draw Hi, What is the closing date for the DVLA SEAT IBIZA car please, it is not to be found […]
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