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Back in January, Marc Cote sent me an article about this. I don't think any differently about it now than I did then. I think this is nothing more than an attempt by obama and his gang of thugs to silence the voices of opposition through forcing real names to be attched to online identification. They will either legislate or intimidate the blogosphere into silence and submission.
There is no good reason for the federal government to be involved in internet privacy. As a matter of fact, this is the very last group I would want in charge of my privacy. They care nothing for us or our privacy, exactly the opposite appears to be true. obama and his thugs want to have access to your private information. Once they have access to your online identity, their professional hackers can gain access to your financial records, any criminal records, your surfing habits, all the dirty little secrets. How do you think they will use that information? Any damn way they please...
From FoxNews
The Commerce Dept. unveiled a plan Friday to create a national cyber-identity system that would give consumers who opt in a single secure password and identity for all their digital transactions.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) will be a voluntary system designed to protect consumers from online fraud and identity theft -- which hit 8.1 million people last year, at a total cost of $27 billion. The problem: The current system of half-remembered passwords jotted down on post-it notes and based on pets and maiden names simply isn't good enough.
"Passwords just won't cut it here," said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who announced the initiative at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “We must do more to help consumers protect themselves, and we must make it more convenient than remembering dozens of passwords,” he said.
The "identity ecosystem" will create secure online IDs for Americans who elect to join the program, giving them a single credential -- such as a unique piece of software on a smart phone, a smart card, or a token that generates a one-time digital password -- which they can use to log on to a variety of websites.
Instead of having to remember all those disparate passwords, one for each site that conducts a secure transaction, a consumer would use that single credential to log in, with far more security than a password alone would provide, the agency said.
That log in could be anything: a smart card, a cell phone, a keychain fob, or some other type of gizmo.
And if a user so chooses, they can elect to have several log-ins from different credential providers. Want a key fob from Google and cell phone software from Verisign? Go for it, both will work -- though having two would reduce the simplicity factor, of course.
Read the rest at the link above...
