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2011-09-02 10:04 pm
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Identity providers in the SAML sense and some things they can do

For my friends who are interested in the nymwars and the US government's National Strategy on Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), this is a long post that hopes to establish how the technical term "Identity Provider" is a little different from establishing an online Identity.

It's late, i've left out lots, but there's lots of detail, that i think if you don't understand how the SAML Identity Provider technology works, you may misread in some technical discussion.

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elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
2011-07-02 09:29 am
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Get your data back

Google Takeout:

https://www.google.com/takeout/

You can select a download archive of your data from:
* Buzz -- html files for each entry
* Contacts and Circles -- i didn't do this
* Picasa Web Albums -- i didn't do this
* Profile -- json file (a text file with some mark up, which can be opened in a text editor)


Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/download/ (under "Edit Account")

No selection (so no exclusion of photos & videos), but when you do get your archive there is an index.html and you can navigate around your wall, your messages, etc. While this may not be as granular and "remixable" as it stands compared to Google Takeout, it would be easy to write a script to remix it. And it's very useful right now if you want to have a copy of your facebook archive on your own machine.
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