Thoughts on trust ownership...

I was considering the unique security challenges of the Widgets 1.0 
Working Draft <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-widgets-20061109/> 
(chromeless windows that want all the capabilities of the web plus 
more.)  I began to wonder if we should be looking to enable the IT 
administrator as much or more than the individual.

As an IT administrator, you're forced to deal with users who place 
different values on personal and information security, who have 
different mental models for who they trust, and generally have less to 
lose personally than the corporation as a whole.  Consequently, as much 
as the responsibility for maintaining the information security policy 
belongs to each individual at a company, in practice, doing that 
consistently requires some central enforcement. 

Would we consider it in-scope or out-of-scope to deal with centrally 
managing access and policy along side with (or in place of) making it 
easier for the individual user to manage his/her security and privacy?

--Brad

Received on Monday, 20 November 2006 20:31:55 UTC