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Joshua May (Melbourne, Australia)

Josh is a passionate web developer, with a littered history of delving deep into many facets of online technologies. He's been from the web toward mobile devices, to Flash, Flex and AIR, to HTML/CSS/JS, to PHP and Java, to MySQL, to server administration. Open source keeps him busy, and Josh spends many days meddling with Symfony.

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Take control! How to own your identity online

Learn about decentralised infrastructure for managing your identity online, using technologies like OpenID (in contrast to, say, CardSpace/InfoCard and Passport/Facebook Connect/etc kinds of technologies), and discussing the many ways in which the typical "username/password" paradigm is falling by the wayside, to make way for things like browser certificates, and out-of-band authentication via key fobs, and, say, XMPP messaging. More...