Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Episode 81: Facebook as an identity provider

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The UK is considering enabling citizens to use a Facebook ID for access to government services. Tom Smedinghoff, a partner at Wildman Harrold and chairman of an American Bar Association Task Force fills listeners in on how this would work and whether it may happen in the U.S. with all the discussion around online identities.



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Large, high profile events, like the London 2012 Olympics, need to be secure while also enabling individuals to get where they need to go without too much of a security hassle. Mark Joynes, director of Product Management at Entrust, explains how security and identity plans for these events are created. He also discusses Entrust’s involvement with the Interpol employee credentials that is used for crossing borders as well as physical and logical access to Interpol facilities and networks.

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Two German artists have started creating unofficial ID cards for Facebook and Google+ users to highlight the importance of an online identity as opposed to a government-issued one.

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Web designer and developer Gareth Wright has discovered security vulnerabilities in Facebook’s app for iOS and Android devices, reports MacRumors.com.

The flaw allows malicious users to access login credentials that are located in a .plist file connected to the app and use them to login to the stolen account on a different device.

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dwinQ announced that with its RFID and mobile technologies the company has achieved Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer status and has completed a deep integration into the Facebook API & Platform.

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