July 27, 2004

Identity is your friendly foe and foely friend

Ed Felton reports from yet-another "we gotta do something about the Internet but we don't know what" conference:

When the topic was spam, people liked technologies that identify message senders; but on other topics, identification was considered harmful. I hope to see more discussion about identification at the conference.

...and in the rest of the Internet community. We can't have it both ways, folks. Either you trust both the identities and the identifying parties, or you don't. Posted by lookit at July 27, 2004 10:09 AM