Obama wants your name, chunkylover63
Apparently, the Obama Administration wants to unmask that secret identity you’ve cultivated on the internet;
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.
The Obama administration is currently drafting what it’s calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An early version was publicly released last summer.)
“We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford event. “We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.”
Yeah, don’t mind us…we’re only trying to help that which has worked so well the past few decades. Nah, we won’t screw it up, or screw you over. Don’t worry, be sappy.
Thanks to ROS for the link.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Yeah, I can imagine the level of cooperation that edict will get. Roughly 300,000,000 Americans in the USA. Roughly 200,000,000 using internet via PC or Smartphones. Probably 20,000,000 that will comply. I don’t see this ever coming close to happening. Have you tried to navigate a government website lately??? Good grief
Shit, half the government access is still dialup. I’m surprised they’ve moved past the Compuserve stage.
Yeah we just “want to enhance everyone’s security so you don’t have to memorize all these passwords”… hmm yeah just give the govt your passwords… you can trust them.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” -Ronald Reagan
Well heck… Look how well the TSA has made flying more popular.
We’re just misunderstanding their good intentions. Maybe if we all just sit down together over a beer we can hash it out.
I see it being a precurser to a national ID. They can start with this and issue it like a CAC and make every computer sold in the US have a reader…than all they have to do is make the computer manufactures add software that the systems wont work without a CAC……great….
It sounds like what they want people to do is opt into a government digital certificate that can be used in place of passwords. What this means is that the government will be able to track your browsing and cut off your access to sites it thinks you should not be visiting.
What is so ironic about this plan is that the left see Obama as a hero of the internet who will save it through Orwellian titled “net neutrality” rules.
but if they know who I am then I can’t leave such witty comments about how much I’m getting f**ked in the ass by him.
Achtung! Your papers, please!
The Social Security number was supposed to be just so you can get your social security benefits, now its the key to every bit of your personal information. But I’m sure this will different, right?
First off: Jonn; Did you give up the chunkylover63 handle after you lost all that weight?
Regardless, it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I can see no/zero/nil good to come from the process. We can’t even use profiling for random crimes yet THIS is a good idea?
For myself… when ponsdorf falls I will vacate the space.
Aside: When guns are outlawed – only outlaws will have guns. When online pseudonyms are outlawed your REAL name will be stolen.
Actually, chunkylover63 was Homer Simpson’s online persona.
The articles also state that the Government has absolutely NO intention of compiling a data base of folks’ names and ID’s.
Absolute bullshit.
How are you to assign and verify the internet ID without a data base?
This is just another end-run around the constitution by this president and his zampolits and sycophants. They are desperate to remain in power so they can continue to enslave America and turn it into another socialist worker’s paradise.
Just say NO! to these sorts of things.
The government already took my rights to privacy, and search away. I guess they just want to match my online activity with those naked TSA pictures they have of me. Although, my uterine cancer might not have been discovered with out the Enhanced pat down… so I’m sure the gov really has our best interest at heart… right?
Hey Boy King Wannabe.
Go.
Fuck.
Yourself.
And don’t forget to bang your goat, while you’re at it.