The future of digital trust
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Establishing who someone is and how much they can be trusted is hard — even more so on the Internet. Here, our podcast team explores some new concepts in digital trust, such as decentralized identity, privacy protection and identity ownership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | My name is Mike Mason. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm one of your regular hosts, and I'm here today with Jamak, who is also one of your regular co-hosts. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello, Jamak. |
| 0:16.9 | Hi, Mike. |
| 0:17.9 | Great to have another episode together. |
| 0:20.5 | Yeah, it is great. So today we are going to be talking about trust and the challenges of establishing trust between things and entities and people, especially on the internet with the current design of the internet. We're going to be talking about various |
| 0:38.3 | initiatives and efforts that are in place to progress how we deal with trust. Today we've got |
| 0:46.3 | two guests on the podcast. I'm going to ask them each to introduce themselves briefly here. |
| 0:52.8 | So we've got Ken Adler. |
| 0:54.3 | Hello, Ken. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey there. |
| 0:55.7 | How's it going? |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Ken. |
| 0:57.8 | I've been working on the ARPANET and then later the Internet since the late 80s. |
| 1:04.2 | And I've been involved with identity-related technologies pretty much that whole time. |
| 1:09.9 | I ran a publicly signed P.K.I. In the early 2000s, |
| 1:15.2 | which sort of got me all ready to read Santoshi's white paper in 2009. And I have been a CSO in a |
| 1:24.5 | previous life. I joined ThoughtWorks about four years ago with the DPS group, |
| 1:30.3 | where I was the security owner, the security pillar owner of DPS. And over time, just because of |
| 1:37.9 | how ThoughtWorks and our clients and the needs, I've increasingly been focused on identity and |
| 1:43.5 | the related authorization type of engagements. |
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