I’ve been following Dave White’s Visitors and Residents work for a while as it fits in well with the discussions around identity provisioning that we’ve had endless debates about in REFEDS and Shibboleth circles. I was really pleased to see his latest piece on the Learning Black Market as it highlighted concerns I have had … Read more
So I’ve been having an interesting conversation with that Dave Pattern about authentication this morning and why librarians like EZProxy so much. I’m not going to get in to the whole discussion about the problems of proxies, the issues with faking an IP authentication and the lack of personalisation. I want to talk about why … Read more
Yup, it’s another post about branding, and another post about eduID. Sorry 🙂 I’ve been having a lot of discussions recently with people about the ‘brand’ of eduID and that it causes some concern – mostly because of the word ‘brand’. I couldn’t agree more. I was thinking about it at the weekend and the … Read more
Whilst sitting in the tf-emc2 meeting today I have been having some idle thoughts about tiered login, and some of the issues that are still in my mind unanswered in this space. The problem for most service providers is simple – the user has to tell them what type of authentication they wish to use. … Read more
I’ve noticed a growing trend recently towards services insisting on a specific ‘type’ of password in order to sign up for services. This normally involves a specific count of numbers, uppercase or lowercase letters. I’m guessing I’m probably pretty much like most people in terms of password use. I tend to use the same password … Read more
Something that got my brain working this morning was a timely tweet from the ever observant @daveyp about the fact that ScienceDirect are using DoubleClick adverts at article level on some of their resources. Here’s an example for you: Now firstly, I’m not necessarily saying this is a bad thing. Elsevier make it quite clear … Read more