Monthly Archives: March 2008

Identity on the phone

By Will Norris | March 21, 2008

Yesterday I called Bank of America to find out what had happened to my income tax refund check. I was prompted to enter my account number for ‘faster service’, but I instead simply pressed zero to bypass it. Entering your account number leads you into this drawn out description of your current balance […]

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OSIS Interop Testing

By Will Norris | March 3, 2008

The DiSo Project (well, wp-openid specifically) is participating in the Open-Source Identity System Interop Testing happening now until the RSA Conference in April. WP-OpenID is an OpenID 1.1 and 2.0 consumer, and additionally uses the simple-registration extension. We do not yet support attribute exchange. Under the covers, we use the JanRain PHP […]

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