• Obama administration moves forward with unique internet ID for all Americans
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[quote]President Obama has signaled that he will give the United States Commerce Department the authority over a proposed national cybersecurity measure that would involve giving each American a unique online identity. Other candidates mentioned previously to head up the new system have included the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security, but the announcement that the Commerce Department will take the job should please groups that have raised concerns over security agencies doing double duty in police and intelligence work. So anyway, what about this unique ID we'll all be getting? Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to a national ID card, or a government controlled system, but that it would enhance security and reduce the need for people to memorize dozens of passwords online. Sorry, Locke, sounds like a national ID system to us. Anyway, the Obama administration is currently drafting what it's dubbed the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which is expected at the Department of Commerce in a few months. We'll keep you posted if anything terrifying or cool happens.[/quote] [url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/obama-administration-moves-forward-with-unique-internet-id-for-a/[/url] CBS: [quote]STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said. That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies. The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke. The Obama administration is currently drafting what it's calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An early version was publicly released last summer.) "We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke said at the Stanford event. "We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities." The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said. Details about the "trusted identity" project are unusually scarce. Last year's announcement referenced a possible forthcoming smart card or digital certificate that would prove that online users are who they say they are. These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by online vendors for financial transactions. Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. "I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to," he said. There's no chance that "a centralized database will emerge," and "we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this," he said. Inter-agency rivalries to claim authority over cybersecurity have exited ever since many responsibilities were centralized in the Department of Homeland Security as part of its creation nine years ago. Three years ago, proposals were were circulating in Washington to transfer authority to the secretive NSA, which is part of the U.S. Defense Department. In March 2009, Rod Beckstrom, director of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center, resigned through a letter that gave a rare public glimpse into the competition for budgetary dollars and cybersecurity authority. Beckstrom said at the time that the NSA "effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology insertions," and has proposed moving some functions to the agency's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters.[/quote] I personally think this will be a good thing, I don't know. I live in Canada. :smug:
:frog:
Well, I was planning to move to Canada anyways.
One step closer for Americans to become a number rather than a person.
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;27316509]:frog:[/QUOTE] Anything bothering you son?
Sounds exploitable.
[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;27316543]Anything bothering you son?[/QUOTE] Lack of privacy, nbd farewell laissez faire
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;27316616]Lack of privacy, nbd farewell laissez faire[/QUOTE] Okay, thought that post was directed towards me.
To be honest this is a good idea in terms of easier authentication, no more remembering passwords. Yet it's also exploitable, not to mention there's some thing about it being issued by the US Government that has me paranoid. I'd also be cool if you could choose your own ID instead of a random number.
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;27316616]Lack of privacy, nbd farewell laissez faire[/QUOTE] ... Because laissez faire worked out so well in the first place and because this is totally something intertwined with laissez faire.
Fuck no I WILL NOT USE THIS THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE FROM CONTROL, FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET, IT SHOULD BE A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT NOWDAYS
Oh God, they're moving into the Internet. Shangri-La is going to be attacked!
Geez call it bad naming. At first I thought they wanted to make some kind of Internet ID card, but it seems to be some form of specialised password retention system.
[quote=the golden;27316728]considering this is being issues by the us government, you can be practically certain that this will violate every privacy you ever held dear.[/quote] fuck you government this is bull shit
[quote]"We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke said at the Stanford event. "We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."[/quote] My god I share a forum with illiterates
[QUOTE=Zeke129;27316780]My god I share a forum with illiterates[/QUOTE] You expect people to read? ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE!? [/sarcasm it's just too sad you're right.
ACTA. Maybe, but I will sure as fuck not get a so called "1nt3rw3b5 EYEDEE". Since when the hell should I have all my passwords on a ID? I can just remember it or use my browsers "Remember password" function or just remember my email password to reset the passwords I forgot.
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;27316734]Fuck no I WILL NOT USE THIS THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE FROM CONTROL, FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET, I SHOULD BE A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT NOWDAYS[/QUOTE] It should be a basic human skill to read, but you're clearly incapable of that.
[quote]Gary Locke[/quote] Hey, my old governor. I always wondered what happened to him.
I don't care that they want to do this, but they should focus on worse things. :colbert:
So much for the land of the Free huh? Even socialist countries and some communist countries got more freedom.
But if we never need to memorize passwords then who will need the forgot password? links!?!
Change... The youth of our generation needs to get their act together. [editline]10th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Brage Nyman;27317011]Even socialist countries[/QUOTE] What do you think the current administration's agenda is?
god bless america and no one else
land of the free
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;27316734]Fuck no I WILL NOT USE THIS THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE FROM CONTROL, FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET, I SHOULD BE A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT NOWDAYS[/QUOTE] um what
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JewlGsYxs[/media] [B]I AM NOT A NUMBER I AM A FREE MAN[/B]
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;27317011]So much for the land of the Free huh? Even socialist countries and some communist countries got more freedom.[/QUOTE] Yes, a thing that is still in planning stages and is designed to be an optional convenience takes away many freedoms
[QUOTE=The golden;27317014]I always thought oppressing the people was the US governments biggest concern. It must be considering they do it so fucking much.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing you, and everyone else didn't read zeke's post.
I don't care, ill just view more porn.
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