The NIST Digital Identity Guidelines, published as Special Publication 800-63 by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, set out how organizations should establish, authenticate and federate digital identities. They are required reading for…
GrapheneOS privacy features are built on a simple idea: a phone protects personal data best when the operating system resists attack and gives the owner fine control over what each app can reach. GrapheneOS is…
Identity standards are the shared technical rules that let logins, credentials and identity data work across different products, companies and countries. They explain why one passkey works in several browsers and why a single company…
Ubuntu Privacy Controls cover a wider set of choices than many people realize, from data-sharing prompts in the installer to permissions for individual Snap applications. Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution published by Canonical, based…
Authentication assurance levels describe how confident a service can be that the person logging in is the legitimate holder of an account. The idea is most closely associated with NIST Special Publication 800-63, the US…
Debian Security Configuration is less about flipping a single switch and more about a series of careful choices, starting in the installer and continuing through daily maintenance. Debian is one of the oldest community Linux…
Identity assurance levels describe how confident a service can be that a person really is who they claimed to be when their account was created. The best-known scheme comes from NIST SP 800-63, the US…
Fedora Privacy Settings combine choices made in the installer, controls in the GNOME desktop, and a few system-level defaults that most users never see. Fedora is a community Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, and…
Account identity recovery is the process an online service uses to confirm that you are the rightful owner of an account when your normal way of signing in no longer works. A forgotten password, a…
Linux Mint Privacy Settings are spread across several tools rather than gathered in one dashboard, which is why many new users never review them. Linux Mint is a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, with…