Obama Administration Unveils Internet ID Plan
A screenshot of the website for the National Strategy on Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace, which aims to create online IDs that will boost privacy and security online.
The Commerce Dept. unveiled a plan Friday to create a national cyber-identity system that would give consumers who opt in a single secure password and identity for all their digital transactions.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) will be a voluntary system designed to protect consumers from online fraud and identity theft — which hit 8.1 million people last year, at a total cost of $27 billion. The problem: The current system of half-remembered passwords jotted down on post-it notes and based on pets and maiden names simply isn’t good enough.
“Passwords just won’t cut it here,” said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who announced the initiative at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “We must do more to help consumers protect themselves, and we must make it more convenient than remembering dozens of passwords,” he said.
The “identity ecosystem” will create secure online IDs for Americans who elect to join the program, giving them a single credential — such as a unique piece of software on a smart phone, a smart card, or a token that generates a one-time digital password — which they can use to log on to a variety of websites.
Instead of having to remember all those disparate passwords, one for each site that conducts a secure transaction, a consumer would use that single credential to log in, with far more security than a password alone would provide, the agency said.
That log in could be anything: a smart card, a cell phone, a keychain fob, or some other type of gizmo.
And if a user so chooses, they can elect to have several log-ins from different credential providers. Want a key fob from Google and cell phone software from Verisign? Go for it, both will work — though having two would reduce the simplicity factor, of course.
NSTIC also aims to protect consumers’ privacy from the vast array of companies that collect data on their websurfing activity, letting them surf anonymously online. It would not create a centralized database of information, the agency said, because consumers will be able to choose from a variety of programs within the cyber-identity system.
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April 21st, 2011 at 1:38 pm
The reality of this is staggering!!! This could be the catalyst to dump the dollar as once it is implemented it can be used to take over banking and and all commerce to go strictly cashless…. At a minimum it could be construed as biblical as revelation speaks of the “mark”, which no one can labor or trade without it…. sound possible anybody? P.S. I said biblical at a minimum!!! ha,ha,ha…. Guess that suggests how screwed we really are, when I see revelation as our minimum worry!!!! God save us from us!!!!
April 21st, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Voluntary, for now….
April 21st, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Step 1
April 24th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Opt-Out
Will I be the only one?
April 24th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
addendum: “dont let me be the only one”.
April 25th, 2011 at 8:34 am
you definitely won’t be the only one.
April 25th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Are you ready to Defend Liberty?
http://www.warisaracket.org/semperfi.html
http://www.supremilated.com/Recon/ErrantSovereignHandbook.pdf
http://www.freedom-school.com/mary_elizabeth_croft.pdf
http://www.freedom-school.com/nord-davis/pardon-me-5.pdf
http://familyrights.us/bin/sui_juris/
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April 26th, 2011 at 1:01 am
Thin end of a wedge which will widen until we all must have it to do business on the web, ignore it because we do have the power, we just need to start using it.