Crime

Jul 23, 2010

You’re all individuals, you’re all different

What a funny old week it’s been. Having blogged a lot about identity in the past, the week began with two peak time TV viewing programs about identity on Monday: Who do you think you are? on the BBC and Identity on ITV. These programs are all about finding out about you and then keeping…

Jun 1, 2010

The name is Skinner … Jason Skinner

I’m intrigued by the number of discussions there are around identity. There have been several here recently, for example: Adventures in identity: are you paranoid or schizophrenic? If identities are unique, why do I have so many? Why identity management is so complicated And there are a number of blogs dedicated to identity management issues,…

May 6, 2010

What do criminals, bankers and Warren Buffett have in common?

Some years ago, I delivered a presentation as a keynote with the title: “All Bankers are Criminals”. I actually didn’t mean “all”. The chicken feed, battery farmed, commercial, transactional and retail bankers are pin-stripe suited, humble pie, nice guys. I was talking about the evil animals of Wall Street and the City. These jungle animals…

Apr 27, 2010

Why identity management is so complicated

It fascinates me when we talk about ‘identity’ that we always seem to think of identity management as being a single thing … but it’s not. First, there’s the use of identity for identification; second for authentication; third, for verification; and fourth for fulfilment. Then there are the many instances of providing and proving identification:…

Apr 23, 2010

Your soul is mine

I know that many of you will have read the story already but, just in case, it is worth posting here for posterity and for the record. LONDON, ENGLAND, April 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Gamestation has discovered that more than 88% of the British public do not read the terms and conditions of a website…

Apr 21, 2010

Cover payments – a real pain?

A while ago, I talked about cover payments and the introduction of the changes to SWIFT MT202 message types. A wee bit technical for the blog, but worth it as the costs of implementation of the changes were, and are, a major concern for the banks I deal with. Today, a press release landed in…

Apr 20, 2010

Goldman Sachs … or Sack Goldmans?

There are so many articles and analysis into Goldman Sachs practices at the moment … … that I’m not going to write a lengthy analysis to add to all of these, but have picked a few of the best articles at the end of this blog entry. What I would like to say is that…

Apr 2, 2010

What if the internet is your bank … and you can’t access it?

After Brett's post the other day which posed the question: "what if the internet is your bank?", I was quite amused just now, as I loaded Citibank's homepage and nothing loaded. Nothing at all. Nowt. Nada. Zero. Nothing. Why so? Because I use an add-on in Firefox called NoScript. NoScript describes itself as the "best…

Mar 30, 2010

If identities are unique, why do I have so many?

It’s a question I’ve asked before, but is becoming even more pertinent as I see new identity management programmes being rolled out that are fragmented, uncoordinated and, in some ways, nonsensical. The point was brought home to me as I listened to the stream of discussion about identity management that took place as a workgroup…

Mar 22, 2010

Credit crunch bank robberies

I guess these desperate times cause desperate actions, as the last few weeks must have created the funniest spate of bank robberies ever seen. First, there was the Russian Sumo wrestler who wrestled an ATM out of the wall … March 9th – Total Pro Sports You always wondered why these sumo wrestlers gained all…