Lessons learned from our MedIAM project
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Managing authorization grants beyond OAuth 2
Why we're building a new IETF standard called GNAP
Apr 26, 202119 min read
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...
Mar 12, 20216 min read
The ethical dilemma posed by Decentralized Identity
And how to solve it, in theory and in practice
Jan 30, 20216 min read
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...
Apr 14, 202011 min read
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...
Apr 13, 20203 min read
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,...
Apr 10, 20209 min read
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...
Apr 9, 20205 min read
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...
Apr 7, 20206 min read