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This is about 6 months old (so you may have already seen it), but when doing research for the DataPortability Project Timeline, I found this very clear and concise overview of OpenID:

There’s nothing earth-shattering here, but in case you’ve been scratching your head about OpenID (especially with all the recent news), this might help. And my guess is that even if you know all this, you probably know some folks who could use the primer.

Enjoy.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a technophile to some degree and might think the term “Worm Secure Disposal System” may indicate a relationship to the computer virus usage of the word “worm”. What I’m about to talk about, however, is the old-school meaning of the word: an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate.

I had to destroy some sensitive data the other day, and realized a meaningful chunk was small enough that it wouldn’t be properly shredded. Someone could (if they were really deadicated dumpster-divers) find that nugget and gain some useful intel for whatever nafarious purposes they may have to do so.

I thought about the worm tower I have at home (ie. a big box of worms that eat my biodegradable trash, turning it into nutrient-rich “dirt”). Since they love paper (eating it as well as laying eggs in it), they’d enjoy munching on shredded secure intel as much as they do old newspapers.

So that’s the idea of the day… A company that picks up your shredded documents and feeds them to worms and then sells the output as organic fertalizer. Wins all around.