Online security is a vitally important consideration in this day and age. From doxxing to ransomware to identity theft, hacking online accounts is one of the most popular ways…
Tag: Identity
A History of Human Identity in Pictures – Part 1
The concept of human identity stretches back thousands of years into unrecorded history. Long before our identities were digitized and stored in databases, we used language, objects, and documents…
New Satoshi Nakamoto Theory Points to Estonia
No one knows the true identity of Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, yet most of us picture a Japanese computer scientist. This new theory however, points towards Estonia as Satoshi’s…
5 Steps to Choose the Best IAM Solution for Your Organisation
Identity and access Management (IAM) is one of the key tools to ensure enterprise network security. There are many security providers on the market, but how do I find…
Aries and ION: Two Different Perspectives of Decentralized Identity in Blockchain Applications
Identity is one of the key foundational elements of blockchain applications. In an ecosystem that has its basics on trustless, anonymous computations, building a notion of identity is far…
Microsoft Picks Bitcoin to Create a New Identity System – Bitcoinist.com
Microsoft is developing a Bitcoin-based decentralized identity system that aims to significantly improve privacy, security, and control while achieving tens-of-thousands of operations per second. Credentials, in the new identity…
On-chain Privacy with Decentralized Computation?
In one of my previous articles, I touched on the transformative benefits Zero-knowledge-proof can offer to online identity solutions while drawing attention to the transparency issues (public) distributed ledgers…
10 possibilities for blockchain applications for Facebook
Seamless payments, global identity and verifications, investment and inheritance The Wall Street Journal coined Facebook’s blockchain project as Project Libra, approaching allies such as Mastercard and Visa. MIT’s Christian…
GDPR and Self-Sovereign Identity: What Lies Ahead
https://medium.com/metadium/the-evolution-of-identity-and-metadiums-role-db88e70ba79d GDPR and self-sovereign identity share a lot in common. GDPR regulates “the right to be forgotten” and self-sovereign identity enables it for the decentralized web. So, when and…
Is front-end development having a identity crisis? — Part II
Late in 2018 I wrote Is front-end development having an identity crisis as the first part of this series. I was surprised by how popular it was not because…