Monthly Archives: May 2014


The Economics of Identity 3

Those of us working on Internet identity issues have lots of conferences to attend when it comes to technology and privacy. Less attention has been paid to how to make money, how value is created, and how business models and monetization works across sectors. Meanwhile governments and companies are reorganizing […]


Covert Redirect

“Covert Redirect”, publicized in May, 2014, is an instance of attackers using open redirectors – a well-known threat, with well-known means of prevention. The OpenID Connect protocol mandates strict measures that preclude open redirectors to prevent this vulnerability. Please see Section 4.2.4 of RFC 6819 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6819#section-4.2.4) for more information on […]