Lessons learned from our MedIAM project
A project sponsored by EU's NGI TRUST
Fabien Imbault
∀x (x=x); musings on identity and digital access
Latest articles
Managing authorization grants beyond OAuth 2
Why we're building a new IETF standard called GNAP
Consent is dead. Long live consent!
Most digital privacy advocates take user consent as the go to solution to avoid Big Brother. But does that stand the test of reality? Online consent is not a trivial process. source: BBC This discussion stems from a thought provoking tweet, to say th...
The ethical dilemma posed by Decentralized Identity
And how to solve it, in theory and in practice
Open software needs a new manifesto
More than a licence, we need to commit to a sustainable digital infrastructure. A (very) brief history of open software movements Both free software and opensource have had tremendous success. Steve Klabnik has provided a great historical review of t...
A toxic potion worth 1 million dollars, 100 seconds before midnight
But only if you can demonstrate your intent to drink it. The challenge (Kavka) What will you do at midnight? An eccentric billionaire places before you a vial of toxin that, if you drink it, will make you painfully ill for a day, but will not threat...
We’re socializing the economy, and for the wrong reasons
Or what a fundamentally critical view of degrowth theory teaches you about the current crisis, and about capitalism in general. I’m no degrowth fanboy, quite the opposite actually. Degrowth’s narrative usually starts by evoking a catastrophic threat,...
Risk is an analysis, Resilience is a verb.
These two related concepts are fundamentally different, and complementary. I use them in my work in cybersecurity, but the current crisis better illustrates the point for the general public. How can we mitigate the damages from the next pandemic? Thi...
Data isn’t the new oil. And we should be careful.
We’re all the rage with big data and its potential. But data might actually be the new CO2, as previously analyzed in a Luminate blog post. Recently, the covid19 crisis adds more surveillance risks, as described by Yuval Harari. The European regulato...
