Obama Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace"

[Matt Collins]

The Obama administration's cyber-security coordinater, Howard Schmidt, yesterday unveiled a national plan for "trusted" online identities (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace).

Schmidt wrote, "The NSTIC, which is in response to one of the near term action items in the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review, calls for the creation of an online environment, or an Identity Ecosystem as we refer to it in the strategy, where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on. For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services. Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc.) from a variety of service providers — both public and private — to authenticate themselves online for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing electronic health records, sending email, etc.)."

You can read the full draft of the plan (http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf) (PDF), and the White House is seeking public comments (http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/) on it as well.


SOURCE:
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/1156240/Senate-Panel-Approves-Cybersecurity-Bill

[KramerDSP]

Sounds like a Virtual National ID Card to me. If this gets passed, look for the government to start pursuing legislation discouraging access to social network sites by those accounts that refuse to be "authenticated".

[Smitty]

I've got a better idea.

50 state nullification,..so people can stop being subjected to the whims of the sociopathic son of a bitches who make up the federal government.

[tremendoustie]

:(

[sailingaway]

Where does the President have the SLIGHTEST authority over what happens on the internet?

[ItsTime]

This would be a hackers dream. No more passwords? All the hacker would need to do is steal the identity and get access to EVERYTHING.

[Dreamofunity]

"a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc.) from a variety of service providers"

For the first few months, until they enact regulation that mandates any transaction must have one of these things.

Screw that.

[heavenlyboy34]

Where does the President have the SLIGHTEST authority over what happens on the internet?

Well, the webbernet is considered "public property" by law(as I understand), so I think the reasoning goes basically that King Obama has to "protect" his kingdom or the serfs will kill each other.:p

[heavenlyboy34]

Gee I bet that CONstitution will kick in any day now and stop this madness :rolleyes:

[heavenlyboy34]

I've got a better idea.

50 state nullification,..so people can stop being subjected to the whims of the sociopathic son of a bitches who make up the federal government.

I bet the Regime would hold the States hostage by withholding welfare till they submit to the Regime's will. :p

[tremendoustie]

I bet the Regime would hold the States hostage by withholding welfare till they submit to the Regime's will. :p

Then the states should withhold taxes.

Fifty bucks says that if the states stop filtering their money though giant, wasteful federal bureaucracies, it won't be the states that suffer. :D

[QueenB4Liberty]

:( Wow this is getting scary.

[Standing Like A Rock]

:( Wow this is getting scary.

Just now you realize that?

[CCTelander]

Gee I bet that CONstitution will kick in any day now and stop this madness :rolleyes:

Right. I hear it stops bullets too.

[jmdrake]

The Obama administration's cyber-security coordinater, Howard Schmidt, yesterday unveiled a national plan for "trusted" online identities (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace).

Schmidt wrote, "The NSTIC, which is in response to one of the near term action items in the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review, calls for the creation of an online environment, or an Identity Ecosystem as we refer to it in the strategy, where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on. For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services. Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc.) from a variety of service providers — both public and private — to authenticate themselves online for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing electronic health records, sending email, etc.)."

You can read the full draft of the plan (http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf) (PDF), and the White House is seeking public comments (http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/) on it as well.


SOURCE:
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/1156240/Senate-Panel-Approves-Cybersecurity-Bill

You can already do that without the government or corporations being in charge. It's called OpenID.

https://openid.org/
http://openid.net/

[Matt Collins]

You can already do that without the government or corporations being in charge. It's called OpenID.

https://openid.org/ (https://openid.org/)
http://openid.net/ (http://openid.net/)
Yes it's like creating a master key for everything in your life. So then an identity fraudster only has to gain information for 1 single item to have access for everything :rolleyes:

[jake]

I'll fight tooth and nail against this one

[Travlyr]

Gee I bet that CONstitution will kick in any day now and stop this madness :rolleyes:

Oh no. The people will continue to go to Tea Parties, support liberty candidates, and complain on internet forums. Then they will listen/watch the propaganda of the media cabal... ZZZzzz.... ZZZzzz. The people are not yet ready to stand up for their duty to the Constitution. All talk... mostly bitchin... no real action.