Comments on: Identity – there is much to gain from getting it right http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/03/30/identity-there-is-much-to-gain-from-getting-it-right/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: weaverluke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/03/30/identity-there-is-much-to-gain-from-getting-it-right/#comment-815 weaverluke Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:01:44 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/03/30/identity-there-is-much-to-gain-from-getting-it-right/#comment-815 Nic, I can completely understand your feeling. The whole affair, on both sides, has been most disturbing. However, in terms of a technological solution, even if we were willing to give up all pseudonimity (let alone anonymity) as a society—and it's a huge if—the problem of reliable attribution of information to individuals could well still remain: intrinsic limitations in biometric and security technologies make it very unlikely that we will ever be able to tie the physical and virtual spheres of identity together with complete reliability. In fact, the closer we get to the unattainable goal of absolute identity assurance, the higher the prize for troll hackers who manage to break a system that is popularly assumed to purvey "true" identity information. Identity turns out to be a Pandora's Box when you <a href="http://www.weaverluke.com/blog" rel="nofollow">open the lid...</a> Nic, I can completely understand your feeling. The whole affair, on both sides, has been most disturbing. However, in terms of a technological solution, even if we were willing to give up all pseudonimity (let alone anonymity) as a society—and it’s a huge if—the problem of reliable attribution of information to individuals could well still remain: intrinsic limitations in biometric and security technologies make it very unlikely that we will ever be able to tie the physical and virtual spheres of identity together with complete reliability.

In fact, the closer we get to the unattainable goal of absolute identity assurance, the higher the prize for troll hackers who manage to break a system that is popularly assumed to purvey “true” identity information.

Identity turns out to be a Pandora’s Box when you open the lid…

]]> By: weaverluke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/03/30/identity-there-is-much-to-gain-from-getting-it-right/#comment-10699 weaverluke Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:01:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/03/30/identity-there-is-much-to-gain-from-getting-it-right/#comment-10699 Nic, I can completely understand your feeling. The whole affair, on both sides, has been most disturbing. However, in terms of a technological solution, even if we were willing to give up all pseudonimity (let alone anonymity) as a society—and it's a huge if—the problem of reliable attribution of information to individuals could well still remain: intrinsic limitations in biometric and security technologies make it very unlikely that we will ever be able to tie the physical and virtual spheres of identity together with complete reliability. In fact, the closer we get to the unattainable goal of absolute identity assurance, the higher the prize for troll hackers who manage to break a system that is popularly assumed to purvey "true" identity information. Identity turns out to be a Pandora's Box when you <a href="http://www.weaverluke.com/blog" rel="nofollow">open the lid...</a> Nic, I can completely understand your feeling. The whole affair, on both sides, has been most disturbing. However, in terms of a technological solution, even if we were willing to give up all pseudonimity (let alone anonymity) as a society—and it’s a huge if—the problem of reliable attribution of information to individuals could well still remain: intrinsic limitations in biometric and security technologies make it very unlikely that we will ever be able to tie the physical and virtual spheres of identity together with complete reliability.

In fact, the closer we get to the unattainable goal of absolute identity assurance, the higher the prize for troll hackers who manage to break a system that is popularly assumed to purvey “true” identity information.

Identity turns out to be a Pandora’s Box when you open the lid…

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