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Brad Templeton Electronic Frontier Foundation (& Foresight Institute) brad@eff.org. The Paradox of Identity (why OpenID is Evil). Why does it matter?. Bad Science. History of humanity is a long chorus of police states punctuated by a few recent stacatto notes of freedom.
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Brad Templeton Electronic Frontier Foundation (& Foresight Institute) brad@eff.org The Paradox of Identity(why OpenID is Evil)
Why does it matter? Bad Science
History of humanity is a long chorus of police states punctuated by a few recent stacatto notes of freedom.
We must take care not to build the infrastructure of a police state
We must consider the balance, and think when we change it And we’re really shifting the balance
Ease of Use is a Bug Mag stripe on your driver’s licence Long web form is impediment
End-User control prevents negotiation • Negotiated vs. non-negotiated • Negotiation only happens with power • What’s the history of success? P3P? Agents? Reputations? • Bizarrely, Passport could have done better! • Proxies
Two choices: • Let the TFH have their way, there are few of them, it costs us little • Too many TFH: Agree with what we wan't or go away