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Category Archives: mozilla
getting web sites to adopt a new identity system
My team at Mozilla works on Persona, an easy and secure web login solution. Persona delivers to web sites and apps just the right information for a meaningful login: an email address of the user’s choice. Persona is one of … Continue reading
Posted in identity, mozilla, web
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Identity Systems: white labeling is a no-go
There’s a new blog post with some criticism of Mozilla Persona, the easy and secure web login solution that my team works on. The great thing about working in the open at Mozilla is that we get this kind of … Continue reading
Posted in identity, mozilla, security
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Firefox is the unlocked browser
Anil Dash is a man after my own heart in his latest post, The Case for User Agent Extremism. Please go read this awesome post: One of my favorite aspects of the infrastructure of the web is that the way … Continue reading
Posted in identity, mozilla, privacy, web
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the Web is the Platform, and the User is the User
Mid-2007, I wrote two blog posts — get over it, the web is the platform and the web is the platform [part 2] that turned out to be quite right on one front, and so incredibly wrong on another. Let’s … Continue reading
Posted in identity, mozilla, web
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connect on your terms
I want to talk about what we, the Identity Team at Mozilla, are working on. Mozilla makes Firefox, the 2nd most popular browser in the world, and the only major browser built by a non-profit. Mozilla’s mission is to build … Continue reading
encryption is not gravy
When designing a secure service that stores user data, you might be temped to say “let’s make sure the data is encrypted.” That statement implies that you’re proposing adding goodness, without taking anything away. Something like “I’d like some of … Continue reading
Posted in cryptorealism, mozilla
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a simpler, webbier approach to Web Intents (or Activities)
A few months ago, Mike Hanson and I started meeting with James, Paul, Greg, and others on the Google Chrome team. We had a common goal: how might web developers build applications that talk to each other in a way … Continue reading
Posted in mozilla, web
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encryption is (mostly) not magic
A few months ago, Sony’s Playstation Network got hacked. Millions of accounts were breached, leaking physical addresses and passwords. Sony admitted that their data was “not encrypted.” Around the same time, researchers discovered that Dropbox stores user files “unencrypted.” Dozens … Continue reading