David Birch: A new way to stop identity theft
戴維•波奇: 阻止身份盜竊的新方法
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enough topic to me.
because when I was asked to do this,
I can't remember,
saying, well,
use their real names."
all the problems solved.
reactionary view of identity,
into all sorts of trouble.
sort of problems about it,
might find interesting.
a camera phone picture of me
at presentations,
that I wrote on my card.
in, I think, Wakefield Prison
I think, French Impressionists.
that when he was in prison,
the governor and whatever,
to put on the walls,
which identifies that as a real fake,
and that's a good example to show it.
that will frame the issue properly.
bringing down the system from within]
a chip and PIN card, right?
legacy thinking about identity
of a well-constructed system.
that's in your pocket
that cost millions of pounds to develop,
electron microscopes on it,
blah blah blah.
whatever you read in the paper.
we take that super-secure chip
counterfeitable magnetic stripe
we still emboss the card.
and you need to copy someone's card,
and rub a pencil over it
and on my debit card too,
and everything else on the front too.
is printed on a chip and PIN card.
than it seems at first.
on the card are criminals.
a shop and buy something,
what the name is.
to write your name on the back
on the back of the card,
ever gets disputed,
can pick it up and read it.
and buy stuff online.
is something to do with names,
in the idea of the identity card,
a couple of years ago,
or the home office or whatever,
in terms of cards with names on them.
in a modern world.
that's my son
for the first-ever gig,
getting into medical school a lot better,
watching that experience as an old person.
like a church hall,
who had bands,
and the first band on the -
the wrong word for it, isn't it?
public music performance of some kind
I thought they had no chance.
that all worked perfectly,
and arranging things
we're trying to solve.
about them on the Internet.
to talk about guitars" or something,
I don't want you to go into a chatroom
they might not all be your friends,
that are in the chatroom
and vicars."
when you look in the paper, right?
all the people in the chatroom are.
is using their real names,
of their police report.
in the chatroom asked for his real name,
You can't give them your real name.
if they turn out to be perverts,
to go into this space
to know who he is.
this sort of logjam around identity
from everybody else,
doesn't work properly,
of thinking about identity.
I saw this thing about -
about my RSS feed, didn't I?
turned up in my inbox.
in the U.S.
in a team at a high school
about all of their teachers
found out about this.
and said,
your Facebook password."
where even at some universities
their Facebook passwords.
your Facebook password.
has blocked access to Facebook.
until she gets home.
on their phones,
there was nothing there.
they don't think about them the same way.
you're a teenager, a fluid thing.
you don't like it,
or it's insecure, or it's inappropriate,
that's given to you by someone,
and use it in all places,
who someone was on Facebook,
and harass them in some way?
there are some cases
that's me at the G20 protest.
but I had a meeting at a bank
and I got an email from the bank
because it'll inflame the protesters.
to sign the visitor's book.
with so and so there."
on Facebook and whatever,
where there's no actual security,
in a play about security.
everybody learns their lines,
more than the G20 protesters do,
than these guys think.
next to somebody in a bank
next to a rogue trader,
to the boss of the bank.
a little bit of whistleblowing.
this guy's a rogue trader.
that I'm a trader at the bank.
reporting the drunk surgeon.
if I'm anonymous.
of providing anonymity there,
where we want to get to.
So what are we going to do about it?
that we got rid of in 1953.
I've just outlined,
to use your real identity,
is to get stolen and subverted.
from using identity
a resurgence of interest in R & D.
us the answer.
living scientist in England,
to all of us.
with his psychic paper.
Doctor Who's psychic paper.
the whole time studying I guess.
to make an electronic version of that,
the British passport
if I actually am over 18.
you need to know that I'm over 18,
all these kind of things,
am I over 18 or not.
I wouldn't be here talking to you.
and make it work,
I'll not go into them,
of the technology as we go along.
is stored inside the mobile phone.
to the phone,
that you can use everywhere.
of the pub is allowed is,
and not barred from the pub?
you touch your ID card to the door,
it shows my picture,
it shows a red cross.
which is extensible.
to use this infrastructure,
licenses, whatever,
to write some code to do this.
Barclay's debit cards
if he really is from British Gas
sounded a bit counter-intuitive,
without proving who I am,
not only exists,
and well-understood.
of public key certificates,
for a while,
of packaging them up.
of the technology being used
in Hyde Park,
that's reading the band.
the episode of Doctor Who,
for our foreign students,
he goes to Mars in a London bus,
of Queen Anne-style copyright
where he goes to Mars in a London bus,
getting on to the bus
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Birch - Digital money and identity consultantDavid Birch is a digital money and ID consultant paving the way for a 21st-century identity.
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David G.W. Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, an electronic identity and transactions consultant. He is the Chairman of the annual Digital Money Forum and Digital Identity Forum in London and he has written for several publications including more than a hundred Second Sight columns for The Guardian newspaper. In 2007, he published Digital Identity Management: Technological, Business and Social Implications under Gower Publishing Ltd. He hosts the Consult Hyperion podcast -- conversations with identity and digital transaction experts.
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