Yep the 60’s bunch were never about “freedom”. They have ALWAYS been about POWER.
Posted on 01/07/2011 8:57:35 PM PST by LibWhacker
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
FUBO
Ping.
he is afraid. very afraid.
Why not ID evryone who reads a newspaper, watches news on TV or listens to the radio while they're at it.
So they will keep track of who buys what as well as who says what?!?!? Don’t suppose anyone cares to ask if this is constitutional?!?!?!
What if we sneak onto the internet from Mexico?
I wonder why all the crazy, 60s hippy libs aren’t “outraged” over their boy going Big Brother on them. I never thought the 60s crowd would ever bend over and drop its drawers for Big Brother. I thought they would scream louder than the conservatives. I was wrong bigtime.
We’re still trying to ID him!
“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.”
Riiiight. ... from the clown who won’t release his BC nor any other records. What a maroon. Stick this idea where the sun don’t shine.
This guy needs to bug out of our business in a very big way.
Hell. No.
The next growth industry will be offshore VPN accounts.
This is so bad, I had to check to see if it was satire.
It isn’t....
How about putting a bar code tattooed to my azz and I will be happy to drop trough to the government employees so they can scan it.
Why not ID everyone who reads a newspaper, watches news on TV or listens to the radio while they’re at it.
Sheep don’t need ID
Probably unconstitutional. let’s start with: what safeguards will ensure that the Gov will not track what political sites you visit, books you read etc?
How about putting a bar code tattooed to my azz and I will be happy to drop trough to the government employees so they can scan it.
Not to worry, that is next .
Hey Obama, i got you ID right here (gesticulating to his favorite part of the male anatomy).
Screw that. And the jack-Obama that rode in on.
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.
Nothing the government does as voluntary stays voluntary for long, and everything on the Internet eventually gets put in a database somewhere, if it's done by the government you can damned well bet it will be centralized enough that other agencies can get to it pretty much at will.
illegals exempted of course
Did that person not read the article?? :p
Then it will be treated like a Mail box that we buy that is owned by the government. The saying "Your azz belongs to me" will have a new meaning!
Can’t figure out who is crossing our borders illegally, but we can track citizens on the web.
Have a nice day. :)
You think identity theft is a hot crime now? Wait until this becomes law and all of us will become criminals.
Yep the 60’s bunch were never about “freedom”. They have ALWAYS been about POWER.
... and Ubuntu
Interesting this comes out after Wheeler was murdered.
“Journalist James Fallows friend of Wheelers speaks
John Wheeler was not a man to be trifled with, to hear his friend James Fallows tell it, and he was a passionate and outspoken person on a multitude of issues, including cybersecurity” Wapo and Fox News
Calling George Orwell! Calling George Orwell!
Pick up Phone No. 1984.
Fubo!
Totally unnecessary. They already know who we are.
Trust me about this. If you don’t believe me, just go to some random blog and post a threat against some high official - you WILL have a knock on your door within 30-45 minutes.
But it us still very telling - and what it is telling me is that they (the PTB) are SCARED!!! Cat-scratch-Fever SCARED!!! of the internet!!!
May your online experience more secure.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
"And all the handy backdoors and universal passwords to please any government drone".
What the state of Ohio did to Joe the Plumber overnight can then be done to any of us in milliseconds. Tyrants work so hard, and need every break they can get to make that vital job easier.
Where is this new congress. The least it can/sould do is see to it that these termites don’t get any pay .
Yep the 60’s bunch were never about “freedom”. They have ALWAYS been about POWER.
“effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.”
After reading the article, It seems to me the decision to have a “Internet ID” has already been made. The choice of which agency to handle the “ID” is how the question.
The question should be: does the government have the right to set up an national “Internet ID for Americans”.
Has that question ever been answered?
Elected lawmakers, where are you? Or ARE YOU Irrelevant.
“We’re still trying to ID him!”
Perfect.
I’m sure they already have the identity of everyone who posts on this forum, especially those of us who have been here for a long time (and probably weren’t as careful as we should have been when we started posting).
It’s truly ugly to see one’s government becoming a force in one’s life and suddenly feeling it as a threat. Or perhaps realizing that it regards us as threats. For what? Ridiculing Obama? Oooooh...
I hope we can attract attention to this and stop it. This would be absolutely fatal. When Ceausescu was dictator of Romania, everybody had to register their typewriters. They had to bring them down to the police station and type a few phrases - so that the police would have a type sample in case somebody started circulating typewritten anti- Ceausescu fliers...
I never thought I’d see the modern high-tech equivalent happening here. But it’s a whole different ball-game with a would-be communist dictator in the White House.
I think I read about this somewhere. Something about a beast and a mark or some such thing!
I suspect that the internet ID was part of the “Financial Reform” bill.
Why go to Mexico. There will be diplomatic staff selling bogus internet IDs out of the back of their consulates.
Sheep don’t need ID
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Surely you have heard of ‘Dolly (the) Sheep’.
Also don’t forget the cow that had gotten in ND(?) and had ‘Mad Cow Disease’ and within a short matter of time they had more info on that Canadian born cow than we (in retrospect) have ever learned about the current resider at 1600 PA Ave.
“We’re still trying to ID him!”
Perfect!
Are you one of those crazy people with a Constitution fetish? /s
And a disgruntled employee will eventually make it public similar to WikiLeaks.
From what I have read, there is much info out there; however, it is not centralized by one ID. I agree with your comments:
This would be absolutely fatal. When Ceausescu was dictator of Romania, everybody had to register their typewriters. They had to bring them down to the police station and type a few phrases - so that the police would have a type sample in case somebody started circulating typewritten anti- Ceausescu fliers...
I never thought I’d see the modern high-tech equivalent happening here. But it’s a whole different ball-game with a would-be communist dictator in the White House.
This is not hugh and series, it is HUGE AND SERIOUS. Word needs to get out to Levin, Limbaugh, Beck, and Savage as well as Gretta and O’reilly.
Where is the ACLU on this?!?!
“What if we sneak onto the internet from Mexico?”
I get the humor, but in reality, how can they ID one who is not in the USSA, using a US service provider.
I am a red blooded southern boy American, but with no intention of returning to the USSA under Obozo.
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