Posted on 04/16/2011 5:22:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single, secure online credential.
"By making online transactions more trustworthy and better protecting privacy, we will prevent costly crime, we will give businesses and consumers new confidence, and we will foster growth and untold innovation," President Barack Obama said in a statement.
"That's why this initiative is so important for our economy," Obama said.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) proposes the creation of secure and reliable online credentials that would be available to consumers who want to use them.
It would be private-sector driven and participation would be voluntary.
The "identity ecosystem" would involve the use of a single credential -- unique software on a smartphone, a smart card or a token that generates a one-time digital password, for example, -- and would eliminate the need to remember multiple passwords.
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” President Barack Obama said in a statement. “That’s why this initiative is so important for our economy,” “
Danger - Hidden Agenda Ahead!!
Screw that. Keep your govt mark of the interweb beast.
Why don’t they just put a chip in all of us and get it over with?
What part of being a free people do these socialist not understand?
I would rather live in a world were I might be cheated doing business with someone then in a world where my every act, thought or word was being traced by the government.
Can you say fraud, waste and abuse ?
WH should stay inside the walls of the WH and leave us to hell alone
I will not comply.
Obama's will be from CT, and carry someone else's name. And, No, you can't see it.
Sad commentary on how far we have fallen when every new proposal brought forth by this administration strikes abject fear in me when I read it.
NOTHING is perfect, no system nor program, and all the pseudo-idealogical programs and laws the gummint puts in are nothing more than further enslavement.
WOLVERINES !!
Complete Control of the World Wide Web!!!
Short pickup range. /s
You're not alone, FRiend.
speaking of that wh, like devvy says, it oughta be bulldozed—a living national palace is not a fitting symbol of America.
nuff said, read into this all that can be and more.
Don’t ya just love this “diabolical genius” obama educating us on the wonders of the first version of the mark of the beast.
Don’t ya just love this “diabolical genius” obama educating us on the wonders of the first version of the mark of the beast.
One-stop hacking!
RSA keys just got hacked.
So if a thousand very sharp programmers put this one-stop government ID key together in 10,000 man-hours, what a target! There will be a million hackers, professional and otherwise, who will put a billion hours into cracking it.
I suspect the reason for this has nothing to do with commerce, and lots to do with knowing the person behind this post you are reading right now, and the people who are reading it right now.
Imagine knowing that if you start to get a little out of control, the Powers That Be can have ACORN and SEIU outside your house chanting within a half-hour of hitting “Post”.
Hey, Libya policy is doing exactly what it was designed to do: Leave Qaddafi in power.
The success of which makes Barry's internet plans of great concern.
Well, that is another way of looking at it that is even more depressing, I'll grant you that.
Of course, no one will know how it happened but the tax payers will be left holding the bag again.
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