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"Hmm a system where a person is given a number and needs to use it to buy goods and services. Where will Americans have heard of that before? Oh, that is right (the book of) Revelation."
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"Hmm a system where a person is given a number and needs to use it to buy goods and services. Where will Americans have heard of that before? Oh, that is right (the book of) Revelation."
CBS reports that the Obama administration is currently working on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, It will hand out Internet IDs to all Americans and be handled by the US Commerce Department rather than the Department of Homeland Security or the National Security Agency.
But then it turns around and says this:
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The idea is that users would have an optional smart card or digital certificate that would prove their actual identities. These would be offered to consumers by online vendors for financial transactions.
Eh, just another FUD article concerning the Internet, this one written by an Italian author and how he interpreted something from CBS.
National Internet ID and an ID issued by a financial institution are two different things..... B of A already has something similar to this......
In 732 days 17 hours and 26 minutes obama will be history and whatever obama wants to do with the Internet will be gone with him...
Now if only obama would push for laws requiring bicycle riders to have a license to ride on public streets.....
Sounds like a PKI implementation.... nothing new. Good luck managing that. And I agree, not sure how much more secure it would make things. In fact, you could make an argument that it would potentially be less secure. As it stands right now, we use different credentials because we are authenticating into different systems. While this puts the effort on the user's end to better manage their credentials, an attack on the system would still be isolated to that system alone - making it a natural security barrier.
A single, centralized, authenticating mechanism would basically put all the keys in one basket. If that system was ever breached... the loss would be much larger. While I'm sure additional controls would be put in.... what's the cost of implementing and managing this system? Security is typically about risk, and the cost associated in dealing with it.
Sounds like a PKI implementation.... nothing new. Good luck managing that. And I agree, not sure how much more secure it would make things. In fact, you could make an argument that it would potentially be less secure. As it stands right now, we use different credentials because we are authenticating into different systems. While this puts the effort on the user's end to better manage their credentials, an attack on the system would still be isolated to that system alone - making it a natural security barrier.
A single, centralized, authenticating mechanism would basically put all the keys in one basket. If that system was ever breached... the loss would be much larger. While I'm sure additional controls would be put in.... what's the cost of implementing and managing this system? Security is typically about risk, and the cost associated in dealing with it.
"White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said that there would be no centralised database either."
Right, I trust him and I believe him. And no future government will ever have a centralized database, either. We can always trust our government to respect our privacy.
One ID for everything? I see it as a system to consolidate information, passwords, identification, bank accounts, etc, into one secure government controlled ID. That sure would allow the government the easiest way to keep track of its citizens.
I think this is just a back door to monitor our Internet activity and snoop on everything any one does. This could also mean the end ot anonymous surfing.
Besides that, if some one cracks your password - they will have access to everything you do.
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