[cryptical]

Just what we need, government forcing true identities on the Internet. Nice way to get the elephants trunk under the tent, it'll start off as a voluntary program, at some point it'll be made mandatory for the kids, or to stop terrorists, or drug dealers... Next thing you know some government pencil pusher will be revoking your access for having the wrong attitude, or too many overdue library books.

It's like the National ID card for cyberspace.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

http://ubama.org/countdown_to_election_2010.htm

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services”

So basically, they way they see it, you log into FR with your government ID.

[dr_lew]

Holy Crap!

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Cyberspace_Policy_Review_final.pdf

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Also known as the “Hugo Chavez” internet bill.

This is the sort of thing it would make sense for real libertarians and freedom-loving Americans to point out to the other side, that liberals really should think long and hard about and then oppose vigorously - I know their reflex will be to jump on board for the reasons 1) it’s from Obama and 2) it eliminates freedoms.

But they should keep in mind. Over at DU. And Kos. And elsewhere.

Republicans will win elections also...

Maybe faster, than they imagine.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/technology/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cyberspace/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet/index

[Cindy]

Link posted here for archival purposes:

www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace

[BuffaloJack]

Trust nothing; trust no one.

[autumnraine]

“An individual voluntarily requests a smart identity card from her home state. The individual chooses to use the card to authenticate herself for a variety of online services, including

Credit card purchases,
· Online banking,
· Accessing electronic health care records,
· Securely accessing her personal laptop computer,
· Anonymously posting blog entries, and
· Logging onto Internet email services using a
pseudonym.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf

So isn’t this handy? “Smart Identity Card” issued by the state... This couldn’t POSSIBLY be used for fake people to vote now could it? I mean there is NO WAY a completely secure government program couldn’t be trusted to handle things like electronic voting, right?

Oh, and for that matter, how do you like that anonymous voting anyway?

By the way, I find it too cumbersome to keep up with cards and such. I mean it’s SOOOOO difficult to remember passwords, log in ids, why not just make the card like they make the credit cards where you just tap it against the machine. No need to even bother with a signature! You know what, I don’t even want to keep up with that, someone may steal the card and do all sorts of bad stuff with it! Better make it implantable or something so as to make it MORE secure...

God help us.