Yah, that'll work as good as our single, secure, transportation security bureaucracy...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
This is about taxing us more.
Depressing and freaking scary.
I hate marxists.
Well, we as a nation elected the expletive-deleted. It’s less his fault for doing what he was elected to do, than it is the nation’s for electing him. Fortunately, it looks as though the nation’s wising up :)
Uhh - - no.
Yah, that'll work as good as our single, secure, transportation security bureaucracy...
BINGO!
This is a prerequisite for enforcing an internet tax.
Did you ever watch this video clip of MIT guy Deb Roy? Watch the second half. He warms you all up with a cutsie thing about his son and his first word, but it’s what they’re doing with this technology to watch over all of us,now, that goes hand in hand with totalitarian control.
http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html
It’s almost 20 minutes long, but worth your time.
F*ck off, obozo. You ain’t gettin’ jack.
Don't be a-scurred. obozo is impotent.
What the Lefties want is an identifier tied to an individual. If you want to call that a “mark”, so be it.
They are worrying about identity. (hee hee hee) What about Obozo’s identity, does anyone else wonder how someone can inhabit 1600 Penn. Ave. and we not truly know “where” he was born or “who” he actually is (real name)?
These are serious matters.
“Fear” is not my response, extreme “Anger” is.
I get a twinge of intimidation that turns quickly to a determination to do something to smash it. Maybe that's a kind of anger, but it's quiet. You know what I mean?
The curious thing here...who exactly put the idea or suggestion in front of the White House? Someone obviously had an agenda item and it didn’t just appear from a rabbit hole. Who proposed this and who intends to be the company that runs this...because the government itself...can’t run such a huge dependable operation.
Internet retailers will be required to use the cyber ID. As part of the transaction, they will be required to invoke a web application that will tell them how much sales tax to withhold, and who to send it to. Since different items are subject to different sales tax, they will be also required to submit the SKU number which identifies the item being purchased. Thus your ID and the items you purchase will be recorded in a government web site's logs.
This goes FAR beyond just an internet tax.
I sympathize entirely. This regime is Marxist/Leninist to the core, and spend their lives, awake and asleep, coming up with totalitarian crap like this. It seems like we get a new one every week.
a single, secure online credential.
Can you say fraud, waste and abuse ?
Once again the usurper used the word “safety” to fool the lemmings into letting the government protect them.
They are going to have to change the Constitution to start charging an internet tax. You can't tax across state borders (I forget the exact wording.)
Unless they go lawless that is, which is their intent, I'm sure.
The NSTIC Identity Ecosystem is a government sponsored event wherein participants can register with the vendor of their choice to be issued an identity certificate. Example would be I could register with a cell phone provider such as Verizon and another could register with a different cell phone provider such as AT&T.
For the credentials to be interoperable, the credentials must have commonality (i.e., they were issued from a common root). The common root then becomes the golden ticket, and the most valuable document in the world. The ability to issue a credential would require the vendor to agree to certain provisions for interoperability. That is one area for misuse.
A national credentialized ecosystem will indeed change the way we think of the web. That I am sure of. Domain names will be useful in the public web, but are not necessary in the identity ecosystem. Therein lies a second area for abuse.
It would be private-sector driven and participation would be voluntary.
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