Oh the Places You’ll Go! Identity Management and the Online Journey

TNC2012

Nicole Harris UK Access Management Focus, JISC Advance

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Me

• UK Access Management Focus;• Advisor to UK federation;• REFEDS Coordinator;• PEER Project Manager;• Shibboleth Consortium Manager;• Generally opinionated about access and identity.

In the Beginning

Hacker Ethics

• Access to computers should be unlimited and total.

• Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative.• All information should be free.• Mistrust authority–promote decentralization.• Hackers should be judged by their hacking.• You can create art and beauty on a computer.• Computers can change your life for the better.

The Facebook Effect

What about the web?

“Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question - Yes, but

how will we ever keep track of such a large project? This proposal provides an answer to

such questions. Firstly, it discusses the problem of information access at CERN. Then, it

introduces the idea of linked information systems, and compares them with less flexible

ways of finding information.”

“Discussions on Hypertext have sometimes tackled the problem of copyright enforcement

and data security. These are of secondary importance at CERN, where information

exchange is still more important than secrecy. Authorisation and accounting systems for

hypertext could conceivably be designed which are very sophisticated, but they are not

proposed here.”

Where do we go from here?

Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen

hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred

years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll

know tomorrow.

How do you see the Internet?

A JISC Advance employee, who will now be employed to draw all of my slides…

A 19 year old University student.

An NREN employee.

Nicole’s Mum.

A University staff member and vociferous tweeter.

Tenants of Security

Usability

Security

Privacy

• Drop the drama. • Follow the crowd.• Ditch the ticks.

So...be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray

or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,you're off to Great Places!

Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting.

So...get on your way!

Thank you for listening.