The Mailowl Scrolls

After a brief holiday this last weekend in Cape Town I have to agree with Jeff Atwood and add that dialog boxes are a curse on the computer user.
While dialogs have a good intention to inform and empower the user their efforts are dashed because users don’t read dialogs. Eric Lippert’s comment on an unrelated [...]

Yes! I have got my first Hello World scenario with CardSpace working!
Using the “Accepting information cards in your website (in C#)” sample from the CardSpace site as a base, my main problem was I couldn’t get the scripts to run on my Vista machine (but I think it’s busy I’m missing a compatibility module somewhere).
So [...]

Let me be frank (“Hi, my name is Frank!”), I don’t know anything about digital certificates other than a little theory and this is a stumbling block for learning how to implement CardSpace.
In the CardSpace model the Identity Provider signs and encrypts the user’s claims with the Relying Party’s public key to create a security [...]

Talking about internet security is like talking about anti-terrorism; there are a lot of sensitive and gray areas which are difficult to solve AND keep everyone happy. If you’re not carefully and cannot immediately solve any technical loophole a listener might have thought about then you’ll very quickly be shot down and dismissed.
I say [...]