Media
Analogy rather than jargon. If a thing cannot be explained without the vocabulary, it is usually not understood yet.
10 pieces, newest first. Every link leaves this site.
Commentary and articles that appeared elsewhere — sometimes off the back of research, sometimes as an outside voice on a headline. The early pieces argue the ethics of algorithms and facial recognition; the later ones have moved to standards and their failure modes, from session tokens to what becomes of an account once its owner has died. The question did not change. The venue did.
Identiverse 2026: C2PA, Provenance, and Agent Intent
Identity at the Center. Recorded live at Identiverse. How a cryptographic chain of custody for media differs from watermarking, and why that is an identity problem — then agents, and the difficulty of governing intent.
09 Aug 2026QuotedThe Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
WIRED. Jill Duffy on inheritance after death. Quoted as co-chair of the OpenID Foundation's Death and the Digital Estate group: there is still no defined way to tell a provider that someone has died.
03 Mar 2026ArticleThe Unfinished Digital Estate: Culture, Law, and Technology after Death
OpenID Foundation. Co-edited with Heather Flanagan and Dean H. Saxe. What happens to an account, and to the person it described, once its owner is gone — across cultures, jurisdictions and the systems that were never designed for the question. A public draft went out in August 2025; this is the final.
14 May 2024QuotedUnprotected Session Tokens Can Undermine FIDO2 Security
Dark Reading.
03 May 2023PodcastEmployment Scams Are on the Rise
Easy Prey Podcast. Fake job offers as an identity attack: the cheap version wants a cheque, the expensive version wants a foothold in your org chart.
13 Jan 2022ArticleHow Cybercriminals Are Cashing in on the Culture of 'Yes'
Dark Reading.
25 Jun 2021InterviewMerging the Spheres of Identity
Cyber Protection Magazine. On phishing against a workforce that had just gone home, and what that did to the boundary between work and personal identity.
23 Oct 2020ArticleA Pause to Address 'Ethical Debt' of Facial Recognition
Dark Reading. Ran nineteen days before the essay here on the technical debt of the same technology.
01 Jul 2020Article4 Steps to a More Mature Identity Program
Dark Reading.
01 Nov 2019ArticleEthical standards for identity-driven algorithms
Springer. Peer-reviewed treatment of the ethics work.
If you want an additional voice on a piece, contact me.