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Libby Brown
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Product manager @ SpruceID. Mom. Digital Wallet, verifiable digital credentials, and Passkey enthusiast. Ex-Microsoft. Duke fan. Dweller of Seattle exurbia.
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From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.
Chapter 5 Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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First international standards working group meeting. #achievementUnlocked
Selfie of me standing next to a sign reading: AAMVA International Conference, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG-10 meeting
September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It’s very helpful to have tall ladders when painting cathedral ceilings….
A view of a room being painted green and white, with two ladders, one a standard 6 foot household ladder, the other an 18 foot tri-ladder usually used for picking fruit. The tall ladder is almost touching the peak of the room’s double-tall ceiling.
August 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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After an extended ride on Dottie today, I built my nerve up to get on Blue Betty, a BMW F650 GS. Dumped it in the driveway, but then went on a nice 20 min ride as well, just to get the feel of it.
A beefy-yet-sleek looking BMW motorcycle with blue paint and black seat and frame.
August 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Here’s the aforementioned Rebel:
Photo of a little Honda Rebel motorcycle -red gas tank and fenders, black seat. There are other, bigger motorcycles in the background.
August 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Sitting in a rooftop bar as the thunder and lightning crash all around. I miss DC thunderstorms
A radar image of a massive storm heading into Washington, DC.
July 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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“Ideological flexibility”? That’s impressive work by the headline writers to avoid saying words like hypocrisy, lies, sanctimoniousness, duplicity, mendacity or deception.
A screencap of the NYTimes this morning. The headline is “Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent” and the subhead reads “A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase would underscore the ideological flexibility that many Republicans are willing to embrace when they are in power.”
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I’m sure he’ll get labeled “correctly” soon enough. (See attached scale.)
Famous meme of from Family Guy where a cop is holding a color scale from lighter to darker skin. The top three, lighter, pinkish colors are labeled “mentally ill.” The bottom three colors, shades of brown and black, are labeled “terrorist.”
June 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Who knew the Costco IAM team could make me so happy? This is way better than early admission for executive members! #passkeys
A screenshot from the Costco app saying, “sign in with a passkey, never forget a password again”
June 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Nice night for the fire pit
June 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I got this view (picture kind of stinks but it was so impressive “live”) last Friday of three of the Mts in a row, with Hood behind us.
Mt. Adams to the far right, Mt St Helens in the middle, Mt. Rainier upper left.
June 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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It's almost like my prediction from 6 months ago was based on my previous experience with the major platform providers announcing support for key identity infra pieces at their developer conferences.
A screenshot of a slack message that reads: Libby, Dec 20th, 2024 at 11:24 Re: Apple - they’re also building off of their credential management apis like Google, so we have the general shape of what they’ll do, just not the exact timing of when. My bet would be they’ll announce in June at WWDC.
June 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I talk with my hands a lot.
A picture of me speaking, adjacent to a huge Identiverse sign. I have one hand up, am I swatting a fly? Invoking something on a slide? It’s a mystery.
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Heather Flanagan always makes the world of incomprehensible identity archana understandable, and today she also made me laugh/cry to learn about “Edge for Business.” IYKYK #Identiverse
A slide titled “the rise of enterprise-specific browsers” where an example given includes “Microsoft Edge for Business” So glad to learn the MS marketing engine has not lost its touch.
June 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Gah - butterflies building for my talk at #Identiverse - first time on a big stage since 2022! Still, I’m super-excited about this content - maybe because it’s what I wanted when I first went down the rabbit hole of VCs.
A stanchion outside a conference center presentation room, listing the topics for the day. One is circled, entitled “Through the digital credentials rabbit hole.”
June 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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@sirtwi.st rocking some role-appropriate sneakers and dropping some knowledge around decentralized identity and why VCs are necessary, on #Identiverse day 2!
A person wearing red and yellow shoes on a stage.
June 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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T-shirt idea #1. #identiverse
A slide being presented on a large screen, that reads: “Ain’t no party like a relying party: verifiable digital credentials edition”
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Backyard campout!
Marshmallows, Hershey’s chocolate bars and Honeymaid graham crackers sit in a pile. A campfire glows orange
May 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Best Star Trek Crew, wrong answers only
The cast of tv show, Letterkenny.
May 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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My niece graduated today, go, G!!!
An auditorium of green robed high school graduates in front of a stage of school dignitaries
May 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Almost a picture perfect Friday evening here in the PNW, warm enough to be outside but cool enough that sitting by the fire is welcome.
A Fremont brewery can of Sky hazy pale ale sits on a table in the foreground. Blurry in the background is a flaming fire pit.
May 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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At least my cats were happy to see me when I came home from my work trip! 😝
A calico cat lays on the headrest of a chair next to me, her tail is swishing out to the side.
April 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I guess I'll be starting out every request with something like:

"Dear Sir/Madam, if it pleases you, could you enlighten me on...."
A screenshot of a news headline from Entrepeneur magazine, the headline reads, "Saying 'Please' and 'Thank You' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI 'Tens of Millions of Dollars'"
April 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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And tonight it’s a Belgian saison in Hood River. #SpringBreakRoadTrip
A Belgian style glass of Full Sail Brewing beer
April 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Bend - also, apparently, the home of the last operating Blockbuster.
A strip mall storefront with Blockbuster signage.
April 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM