Internet identity system. Are we all screwed?

[Nooby]

While not precisely 'cannabis' related this could have major implications for sites like this and all other sites that allow freedom of thought and speech.

 

One Pass to rule them all, One Pass to find them,

One Pass to bring them all and in their freedom bind them.

 

In the land of government where the shadows lie.

 

 

http://openid.net/2011/01/08/internet-identity-system-said-readied-by-obama/?cws_acc=1298062821&caught_as=moderation#comment-caught

 

Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration

2011-01-07 05:00:01.9 GMT

 

By James Sterngold

 

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration plans to

announce today plans for an Internet identity system that will

limit fraud and streamline online transactions, leading to a

surge in Web commerce, officials said.

 

While the White House has spearheaded development of the

framework for secure online identities, the system led by the

U.S. Commerce Department will be voluntary and maintained by

private companies, said the officials, who spoke on condition of

anonymity ahead of the announcement.

 

A group representing companies including Verizon

Communications Inc., Google Inc., PayPal Inc., Symantec Corp.

and AT&T Inc. has supported the program, called the National

Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC.

“This is going to cause a huge shift in consumer use of

the Internet,†said John Clippinger, co-director of the Law Lab

at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in

Cambridge, Massachusetts. “There’s going to be a huge bump and

a huge increase in the amount and kind of data retailers are

going to have.â€

 

Most companies have separate systems for signing on to e-

mail accounts or conducting secure online transactions,

requiring that users memorize multiple passwords and repeat

steps. Under the new program, consumers would sign in just once

and be able to move among other websites, eliminating the

inconvenience that causes consumers to drop many transactions.

 

Fewer Passwords

 

For example, once the system is in place, Google would be

able to join a trusted framework that has adopted the rules and

guidelines established by the Commerce Department. From that

point, someone who logged into a Google e-mail account would be

able to conduct other business including banking or shopping

with other members of the group without having to provide

additional information or verification.

 

Bruce McConnell, a senior counselor for national protection

at the Department of Homeland Security, said NSTIC may lead to a

big reduction in the size of Internet help desks, which spend

much of their time assisting users who have forgotten their

passwords. Because the systems would be more secure, he said, it

may also result in many transactions that are now done on paper,

from pharmaceutical to real estate purchases, to be done online

faster and cheaper.

 

A draft paper outlining NSTIC was released for comment by

the White House in June.

 

‘Who Do You Trust?’

 

“NSTIC could go a long way toward advancing one of the

fundamental challenges of the Internet today, which is — Who do

you trust?†said Don Thibeau, chairman of the Open Identity

Exchange, an industry group based in San Ramon, California,

representing companies that support development of the new

framework.

 

“What is holding back the growth of e-commerce is not

technology, it’s policy. This gives us the rules, the policies

that we need to really move forward.â€

 

The new system will probably hasten the death of

traditional passwords, Clippinger said. Instead, users may rely

on devices such as smartcards with embedded chips, tokens that

generate random codes or biometric devices.

 

“Passwords will disappear,†said Clippinger. “They’re

buggy whips. The old privacy and security conventions don’t

work. You need a new architecture.â€

 

Secure, Efficient

 

Development of a more advanced security system began in

August 2004, when President George W. Bush issued a Homeland

Security Presidential Directive that required all federal

employees be given smartcards with multiple uses, such as

gaining access to buildings, signing on to government websites

and insuring that only people with proper clearances would have

access to restricted documents. The system was intended to be

more secure and more efficient.

 

The Obama administration advanced the process when it

issued its “Cyberspace Policy Review†in 2009. One of the 10

priorities was the security identification system.

The federal government is facilitating what it calls a

“foundational†system in two ways. It is developing the

framework for the identification plan, and it will make a large

number of government agencies, services and products available

through the secure system, from tax returns to reserving

campsites at national parks.

 

“Innovation is one of the key aspects here,†said Ari

Schwartz, a senior adviser for Internet policy at the Department

of Commerce. “There’s so much that could be done if we could

trust transactions more.â€

 

Schwartz said use of the system, once companies voluntarily

choose to participate, may spur a range of efficiencies and e-

commerce similar to the way ATM machines transformed banking,

opening the way to a growing number of services little by

little.

 

Privacy Concerns

 

Civil libertarians have expressed concern that the system

may not protect privacy as well as the government is promising.

“If the concept were implemented in a perfect way it would

be very good,†said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst for

privacy and technology at the New York-based American Civil

Liberties Union. “It’s a convenience. But having a single point

of failure may not be good for protecting privacy. The devil’s

really in the details.†He said the ACLU would “vehemently

oppose†anything that resembled a national ID card.

 

Aaron Brauer-Rieke, a fellow at the Center for Democracy &

Technology in Washington, a civil liberties group, said it was

important that the system would be operated by private

companies, not the government. He said he was concerned about

how the data on consumer online transactions would be used.

“New identity systems will allow moving from one site to

another with less friction and open up data flows, but might

also enable new kinds of targeted advertising,†he said. “We

have to make sure privacy doesn’t get lost in this.â€

 

Schwartz and McConnell said the new system wouldn’t be a

national identity card and that companies, not the government,

would manage the data being passed online.

“There will not be a single data base for this

information,†McConnell said.

 

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–Editors: Elizabeth Wollman, Joe Winski

[demistify]

hmmm. that's a lot of words isn't it? dunno. seems to me that someone always finds a way around obstacles. the nature of life and earth is CHANGE. whatever happens it will eventually change.

as I 've posted elsewhere, how safe are we anyway when Julian Assange and his mates a few years ago were able to hack NASA's computers and cause a space launch to be aborted? as I understand it he used the computers at his uni in brisbane. not so large, not so powerful.

[Psychonaut]

This does not appear to have anything at all to do with sites like this, is all about online shopping and services, an identity system for a certain network of e-commerce sites; nothing to worry about, not yet anyway

[Syb3 rm3nt41_%20]

Wow, the US is a materialist demon-like machine with the intent of total and utter control over the world, it used to be that New world order was a phrase dropped occasionally by the president and other polies,rich fat jew bankers, or ceos with freemasonic backgrounds.... many of which have been well documented ..... many of the presidents after the constitution was formed have been masons. Masonry is interesting because of the diversity of leaders/ceo execs who have masonic membership, masonry is a ancestral generational 'mens club' who believe it is possible to channel energy from the dead, to gain insight and so forth, they also perform luciferian rituals. This is not unfamiliar in the field of politics ..... research the mens club called bohemian grove ..... luciferian rituals, now caught on tape....... many of the members are current CFR members (council of foreign relations) trilateral commision members, bilderberg members, these members incl the powerful 10 or so families that have controlled and manipulated the movements of human civilisation for atleast 300 years..... the rockefellers, the rothschilds and so forth....... they dont care about you or me, the rockefellers who have bought out a lot of the large corps within thee military industrial complex has a public agenda of population control ..... these are the same people who have funded each side of every major war/conflict for the last 100 years... what i speak of is documented, so, we the people need to wake up and realise our own enslavement...... fight these globalists wishing to dominate everybody without a billion dollars in their possession ..... its not surprising they are pushing for an internet kill switch and this internet id, but hey, we've had internet id's for a long time really , although this is much more serious than the internet fingerprint we often use to communicate with servers worldwide ...... the people are awakening, the sheeple are more alert now to the dangers of big corpa and superpowerful govts.... they create youtube to use as a tool for their own selfish purposes and heaven behold they have caused their own worst nightmare/enemy......... the flow/speed/acceleration of information is increasing exponentially every year with the advent of new communication services.......

 

Peace,

[headhigh]

cybermental's on the money... thats probably one of the best (and shortest) explanations of it all, so concise and informative.

 

Nice one mate

[Psychonaut]

Best explanation of it all? What the history of society as we know it?

 

A story about using internet id's to surf in and out of online shopping venues instantly turns into a paranoid conspiracy rant on a cannabis forum, how original

 

When and if REAL problems actually come about from loss of peoples internet privacy then maybe worry about it

[jaikai]

Just grabbin` a beer and some chips, BRB...

 

JAIKAI

[*Ryno*]

Honestly, the sheeple of the world need to wake up a bit and stop listening to the American dictatorship. Nothing good can come from listening to people who believe they have "power". If you ignore them, they will eventually go away. Edited February 21, 2011 by *Ryno*