[OpenID] Fw: Introducing Don Thibeau: the OpenID Foundation's new executive director

[SitG Admin]

>I have been working with web transactions, privacy policy and 
>identity validation for a while now.

Nice to hear! I hadn't known to what extent (or even whether) 
"privacy-conscientious" would be important in selecting a new E.D. 
(especially with all the other qualities to look for), but I'm very 
glad to see he has experience dealing with privacy policies (which 
may mean *enforcement* as well as becoming more aware of the relevant 
concerns so he can *design* a policy to best address them).

>Second, to deal effectively with success. That means to make sure 
>the Foundation can responsibly sustain and accelerate the momentum 
>now underway.

And here (for a moment) I thought it meant "What happens if so many 
corporations join as Sustaining Members, when OpenID hits 'critical 
mass', that they even outnumber the members of the *Foundation*, much 
less the current *Board*?" :)

(Other than the OIDF being richer by about eleven MILLION dollars. :D)

>Q: What experience do you have that you intend to bring to the OIDF?
>A: I have a career-long interest in identity authentication and a 
>personal passion for protecting individual privacy.

I'm overjoyed at the last part, on its own. In context (as the answer 
to that question), I'm VERY impressed.

>It is a painful irony that is seems our physical identity is more 
>protected than our digital identities.

With ever-ongoing efforts to bring those identities closer together, 
the lack of protection for digital identities also begins to look 
like a "back door" - it's like the users are being persuaded to build 
their own "This information doesn't matter, there's no need to build 
security into it." application inside their networks (setting up in 
advance for the eventual trojan), then persuading them to recompile a 
tiny bit of "enhanced convenience" at a time until the application 
morphs into its final form.

  . . . I wonder if that would work out as a creepy animated short.

-Shade