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 ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace
Full draft of the plan:
Hey ZERO! You can pound sand it and then nail a board over it!
Hey ZERO! You can pound sand and then nail a board over it!
It depends. If the ‘Big Brother were George Bush ....
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Thanks for the link — they don’t seem to explain why there is a need for a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT agency to administer it.
This is a blatant violation of privacy and abuse of executive powers. This would never pass any US Congress, so Obama is establishing it via an executive agency.
Congress needs to step in and stop it.
I bet one of the driving factors is exactly to intimidate and shut down conservative internet sites and discussion.
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Yep. If Obama’s government isn’t a Beast - I don’t know what is. And with all of the internet commerce - “can neither buy or sell without the mark” seems pretty, well, prophetic.
If we only knew who is really pulling the leash of “Dear Leader” — it certainly isn’t Bo, the dog.
So you don’t have to identify yourself as an American citizen to vote (or be president) but you have to identify yourself if you surf the web....hmmmmm....oh...wait....I get it....both of those decisions favor democrat power grabs....makes sense now.
And, while ostensibly permitted by the current bastardized interpretation of the Commerce Clause it would still require the force of LAW, not regulation and executive fiat.
As always the US House of Representatives could prevent this by SPECIFICALLY forbidding any taxpayer dollars from funding it.
So you don’t have to identify yourself as an American citizen to vote (or be president) but you have to identify yourself if you surf the web....hmmmmm.
Look at what some of the other tech sites and orgs are saying about this--who funds them? What are their political leanings?
http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/cfis/#funding_and_support_policies
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research
http://www.cdt.org/comments/cdts-comments-draft-national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/real-id-online-new-federal-online-identity-plan
If conservative voices are stilled by this, everyone's voice is stilled also.
Uh, that's why they want to do this, isn't it?
No IP, dynamic or static, can identify a person. They only identify a computer. But those records are kept, so a dynamic IP doesn't protect the identity of a computer. The ISP knows which box asked for a dynamic IP by its MAC address, and the MAC address is globally unique unless tampered with. Very few people know how to do that.
But it is technically possible to implement a system like one in airports, for example. Anyone can turn the laptop on and connect to a wireless hot spot. But the only page you get is the sign-on page. There you have to type your name and password, and then you will be allowed onto the network. This can be implemented by consumer level ISPs.
But business level ISPs can't do that. This is because too much communication in business occurs not between people but between computers. Those boxes need Internet access, but they aren't associated with any particular human, and they are not controlled by that human when they do their Windows updates or remote backup / rsync or web serving or SMTP mail or whatever.
One more possibility is to mandate that all US web sites only serve content to US visitors who are authenticated. But that will backfire because we'll be reading Asian news instead, and they are far less favorable to Obama than the local media. Google will go out of business, and Baidu will become #1 (we don't care what Chinese gov't collects about us, and neither does the Chinese gov't.)
Thank you! It’s from a 1949 book by economist Melchior Palyi (title: “Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State”). Amazing to me how it can be even more relevant today than when he wrote it.
“The next growth industry will be offshore VPN accounts.
... and Ubuntu”
When Ubuntu is outlawed only outlaws will run Ubuntu.
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