🔧 Mit einem neuen Pilotprojekt startet #eduGAIN in die nächste Entwicklungsphase: Neben dem bisherigen Standard #SAML soll künftig auch OpenID Federation (#OIDF) unterstützt werden. 🌐

Die DFN-AAI ist von Beginn an beteiligt & hat als erste Föderation erfolgreich einen Trust Anchor implementiert. 🎉

🎯Ziel: Praxiserfahrungen sammeln, um eduGAIN langfristig technologisch breiter aufzustellen.

Mehr Infos:
👉 https://www.dfn.de/edugain-startet-pilotprojekt-fuer-openid-federation/

#DFNAAI #TrustAnchor
@dfncert

Both–sides-ism will continue to be a blazing hot topic in journalism this year, as you can see from treatments of the New York Times' awkward #Jan6th third anniversary coverage this week.
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111709550552214097

I spent a lot of time around journalists as a kid, including the J-Schools at Minnesota and Missouri. Even then there was a lot of mess around defining "objectivity" and "balance" as measures of objective, legit journalism. That analysis isn't getting any easier.

Unfortunately, we have to grapple with the fact that journalists can have strong biases, and either fall prey to, or even be the central actor of, deliberate misinformation campaigns.

Well-known and established newspapers and network news departments used to be the trust anchors of broad circles of reliable information. "#TrustAnchor" is not a rando term: it's well-defined and well developed within decentralized identity and security expert community. HT my old standards colleague of yore @drummondreed.

The concept is obvious and simple: if you're going to build circles of trusted sources, you have to start •somewhere•.

But market segmentation, and adamant embrace of various outlets of a single point of view to optimize revenue, do not make that an easy choice if you want balanced information. The academic study of journalism hasn't done a hell of a lot for readers and citizens to help frame and approach those decisions.

We're lucky to have a few smart folks who are able to articulate the issue well. Cc @jeffjarvis @alexhoward @Poynter @tomstandage
But man has the academy failed us, so far.