Technometria By Phil Windley I build things; I write code; I void warranties 53 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Technometria will receive your email address.
#50 Apr 20, 2022 We Need a Self-Sovereign Model for IoT; Technometria - Issue #50 – The Internet of Things is more like the CompuServe of Things. We need a new, self-sovereign model to
#49 Apr 14, 2022 John Oliver on Surveillance Capitalism; Technometria - Issue #49 – John Oliver's Last Week Tonight took on data brokers and surveillance capitalism in a recent show and
#48 Apr 6, 2022 Playing with LoraWan and Helium; Technometria - Issue #48 – Large-scale IoT deployments are made harder by connectivity issues. LoRaWAN, and the Helium network,
#47 Mar 24, 2022 PKI and Censorship; Technometria - Issue #47 – PKI has created a global trust framework for the web. But the war in Ukraine has shone a light on its
#46 Mar 15, 2022 Are Transactional Relationships Enough? Technometria - Issue #46 – Our online relationships are almost all transactional. A purely transaction digital life can't feel a
#45 Mar 9, 2022 Provisional Authenticity and Functional Privacy; Technometria - Issue #45 – Provisional authenticity and confidentiality can help us manage the trade offs between privacy and au
#44 Mar 1, 2022 Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality; Technometria - Issue #44 – Authenticity and privacy are usually traded off against each other. Too often we opt for authenticity
#43 Feb 23, 2022 What is Privacy?; Technometria - Issue #43 – With privacy, we're almost never dealing with absolutes. Absolute digital privacy can be achieved by
#42 Feb 16, 2022 An Identity Metasystem >> A Giant Identity DAO; Technometria - Issue #42 – Rather than being a DAO, the world is a gigantic metasystem that provides numerous tacit capabilities
#41 Feb 8, 2022 Framing and Self-Sovereignty in Web3; Technometria - Issue #41 – Self-sovereign identity is foundational to Web3 because it is the means for framing ourselves in the
#40 Feb 2, 2022 Web3: Self-Sovereign Authority and Self-Certifying Protocols; Technometria - Issue #40 – Self-sovereign authority enabled by self-certifying protocols gives us a mechanism for creating a dig
#39 Jan 27, 2022 A Defacto National ID from ID.me; Technometria - Issue #39 – Last week's newsletter reported ID.me's claim that they were not doing 1:many facial recognition. Tur
#38 Jan 20, 2022 IRS Using Facial Scanning; Technometria - Issue #38 – The IRS will use ID.me's authentication and identity proofing service exclusively starting sometime t
#37 Jan 12, 2022 Web3, Coherence, and Platform Sovereignty; Technometria - Issue #37 – I read a couple of interesting things the past couple of weeks that have me thinking about the world
#36 Jan 4, 2022 Web3 and Digital Embodiment; Technometria - Issue #36 – Web3 will make a difference for all of us if it enables people to become digitally embodied, able to
#35 Dec 7, 2021 In Memory of Kim Cameron; Technometria - Issue #35 – Kim Cameron's Laws of Identity are a foundational work in online identity. He used his technical know
#34 Dec 1, 2021 Leveraging the Identity Metasystem; Technometria - Issue #34 – Metasystems promote network effects because they provide leverage: one infrastructure that not only s