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Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It appears the status quo may be finally making its moves to getting control over the heretofore free and open internet. As I and many others have noted previously, the internet is one of the most powerful tools humanity has ever devised. It frees information in a way that was simply unimaginable decades ago and empowers each of us to be as informed or uninformed as we desire.
Just last week in my post, Say Goodbye to “Net Neutrality” – New FCC Proposal Will Permit Discrimination of Web Content, I mused that in so-called “first world” countries like the U.S. the illusion of freedom must be maintained even as civil liberties are eroded. Thus censorship must be administered surreptitiously and slowly. The following plan to implement an “Internet ID” will initially only be rolled out as a pilot program in two states (Michigan and Pennsylvania), and will only deal with government services. That said, we can see where all of this is ultimately headed, and the program, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, should be monitored closely going forward.
Vice reported on this a few days ago:
A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government services. The New York Times described it at the time as a “driver’s license for the internet.”
Sound convenient? It is. Sound scary? It is.
The vision is to use a system that works similarly to how we conduct the most sensitive forms of online transactions, like applying for a mortgage. It will utilize two-step authentication, say, some combination of an encrypted chip in your phone, a biometric ID, and question about the name of your first cat.
But instead of going through a different combination of steps for each agency website, the same process and ID token would work across all government services: from food stamps and welfare to registering for a fishing license.
The original proposal was quick to point out that this isn’t a federally mandated national ID. But if successful, it could pave the way for an interoperable authentication protocol that works for any website, from your Facebook account to your health insurance company.
To start, there’s the privacy issue. Unsurprisingly, the Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately pointed out the red flags, arguing that the right to anonymous speech in the digital realm is protected under the First Amendment. It called the program “radical,” “concerning,” and pointed out that the plan “makes scant mention of the unprecedented threat such a scheme would pose to privacy and free speech online.”
And the keepers of the identity credentials wouldn’t be the government itself, but a third party organization. When the program was introduced in 2011, banks, technology companies or cellphone service providers were suggested for the role, so theoretically Google or Verizon could have access to a comprehensive profile of who you are that’s shared with every site you visit, as mandated by the government.
Then there’s the problem of putting all your security eggs in one vulnerable basket. If a hacker gets their hands on your cyber ID, they have the keys to everything.
For now, this is all just speculation. The program is just entering a test phase with select state government agencies only (there are currently plans to expand the trial out to 10 more organizations.)
But it’s not far-fetched to think we’re moving toward a standardized way to prove our identity in cyberspace the same way we do offline.
Keep a close eye on this.
Full article here.
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You obviously haven't been keeping up with Continuum.
Government is the "Corporate Congress" and you are born with Life-Debt. 9.99/month? Pffft, more like 100/month x expected life-span added to your life-debt to be deducted during your working years & inherited to your offspring automatically.
Failure to register, or be registered as offspring will of course be treason, punishable by death or life-slavery.
Zero admits the NSA's ability to know what we type when we type it ain't all that.
just a few more of these fatuous posts and zerohedge can be considered a sad ol' conspiracy website.
isn't an internet ID a form of progress? with it you will be able to pay your taxes online, request a healthcare allowance online, apply for subsidies online, process your higher education enrolment online, etc etc.
no more forms that you have to print from your faulty printer, buy stamps and envelopes, never sure they will be delivered on time or at all after you drop them in the mailbox, etc etc.
less bureaucracy maybe? the dutch use it, and yes it works splendidly.
They are trying to get us off the dollar and bartering system. When Rome burns down, so does the idea of digital currency.
Satire or gleeful statist?
Yes and your tension level can be reduced by having your balls cut off.
Now, that I am open with my real ID, which you can find at www.kingoftherepublic.com, I find my fears of being 'exposed' are gone. I do recognize though, that we live in a PC tyranny, and most people will only be open when they can be open in secret. First we hang arch-oligarchs, then the PC high priests, and perhaps then, and only then can we live in a transparent society.
You have an interesting website, keep at it, and good luck!
Cheers.
So how's that Obamacare thingy working out for you?
The largest contractor for OBAMACARE is SERCO-GROUP a BUSH-NAZI holding company since the 1920's HQ'd in UK.
FASCIST, BUSH, ... NAZI but labelled "OBAMACARE", like it was a liberal product?
Funny how FASCISM works,... Obama is about as LIBERAL as he is STRAIGHT.
Gay Edgar Hoover (FBI FOUNDER) was also a man's man, ... funny how tryants prefer to fuck other men in the ASS.
Of course, it is how the government is very likely to use such an ID.
I bet you're the sort of asshole who supports Denator Markey's quest to have the government track online "hate" speech. Now arguably, inciting people to violence is one thing, however, who will decide what is "hate speech"?
If you don't think genuine hate speech and racism is a bad thing, you've got no heart, but if you think the ADL, SPLC and other thought policers are not going to include inconvenient facts and fair inferences in the definition, you've got no brains.
Strange how accusing someone of hate speech is not also itself hate speech.
Why are people drinking "Hatorade"?
Holler.
if you call MOAR BIG BROTHER progress then you are correct....and you need your head examined
the europeans are the bloody assholes that invent all this nazi socialist fucking garbage for the world to admire
...and IBM was all too eager to deliver the punch-card machines to facilitate the systematic extermination of the Jews.
....and yes, for those reactionary cunts who deem these efforts to make things run more smoothly yet another attempt by the government to control the people, there is still the option to physically mail your taxes, requests and what have you......
were you as outraged when online banking was introduced? maybe the government is trying to improve its service?
WTF..."maybe the government is trying to improve its service".
Smoothly for who? If it was so good we don't need to be forced into it.
We'll do it on our own.
The reason it's going to be forced is because it's bad for everyone except the government enforcing it, stealing information & killing people without any due process whatsoever for ever having any speech ever that is opposite to the government message.
If online banking was forced by law so that cash-banking was illegal, I'd go cash-only and boycott every bank, asshole.
Gov hiring trolls from the welfare rolls or Acorn. Most of us already do many things online without an ID. Most here won't be requesting "healthcare allowances" or applying for "subsidies" online or anywhere else.
That's not progress, that's anti-progress. The sooner we stop doing all those things online the better.
Each and every one of those actions violates your privacy & leaves you open to identity theft or execution (murder) by your government for doing/saying anything they deem "not acceptable" even though it's 100% legal.
Citizen identification shouldn't be privatized
for republication. That should be walled off.
Those who sold the banks' mortgage bubble
and are told they have to buy it back as
a matter of public policy shouldn't then have
their ongoing financial affairs held at sufferance
to the next folly the banks are engaging that one
would most likely be better off betting against.
Each of the above is equally important to
privatizers. To them, no birthright, just
offers you can't refuse.
The time to speak up has passed, now is the time for senseless bickering.
Internet ID schminternet schmidee.
Does this mean that you will receive your alien anal probe at birth?
Gee, thanks Pennsylvania for helping lead the way on this and warrantless searches. This helps explain the Amish extending their reach on to Maryland's Eastern Shore. Can't wait for the new taxes for filling in the "horse ruts" on state and county roads.
Dark days are coming for us all.
Great... this means soon there will be back-alley, bootleg, black-market internet for sale.
Cash only!
I know I'm not supposed to be "red team blue team" but I truly detest Obama and his merry band.
When will the idiot liberal "techies" that could not suck Obama's dick fast enough realize he is not a Democrat and they are the first target?
After they are in FEMA Camp?
If the camps have internet access, they may not complain much.
CAMP FEMA INTERNET
Upon entry to CAMP FEMA, every NETIZEN get's TAGGED with a FEMA-CHIP(OBAMACARE/SERCO-GROUP), that FEMA-CHIP is WIFI enabled, and provides all INTEL about you to FEMA 24/7
"We told you that CAMP-FEMA had WIFI, ... we never told you that we would give you a keyboard, or Google Glasses to use it
In summary you are all to become SOURCE DEVICES, but access to the internet will be controlled, and only those who fly near the god's will be able to go online or use a keyboard or a mouse and navigate.
The human is to be no more than a passive device that reports it location and temperature and velocity.
I got my identity stolen once...
The thief sent me a hate e-mail.
“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
? Thomas Jefferson
Now we've gone beyond corp's as
monopoly-middlemen between people
and their supposed representatives.
It's really the government as middleman
between monopolists and the population.
So we might as well sell the Capitol
as commercial office space but keep
the proceeds in escrow till we elect
the leadership of the TBTF banks,
health oligopoly, ISP's and food
privatizers.
The large investors do that
with their political power
defined by their investment,
and then they get to privatize
absence of risk, but then they
sucker themselves wherever they're
not the policy setter.
The only real winners are the
real billionaires or those with
enough gained from pyramidal economics
to afford living with that.
Except their food, habitat, and
communications are shafted, along
with the interest on their retirement
income some day. Privatization of
absence of risk means as they get
older they'll be self-defined by
their birthday as someone being
driven closer to eligibility for
subsidy, which is to say they're
getting shaken down. Meanwhile
young Mr. Hubris can have a stroke
at any time and really has no
business forcing his hubris on
others, most of whom don't suffer
from it. Genuine universality and
rationalization simply comes from
legitimately democratic grounding
and prioritizing health instead of
control for profit.
The government is a corporation, protecting other corporations from the will of The People.
The government doesn't give a shit about The People, just keeping them quiet & compliant & fighting over crumbs.
Impeach Obama. Recall Schumer, Feinstein, Graham, McCain and Reid .....
Long live Putin and freedom
Isn't this the definition of "closing the barn doors after the horses have fled"?...
Would love to know how Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP, Amazon, Apple and Oracle... with AT&T and Verizon's tacit endorsement will sell that one to Western Europe and the "America(s)" after the NSA revelations made their abrupt introduction last year and the fact that all of these Corporations are massively hemorraging international business?
Living in interesting times indeed!
Fuck an internet ID!
Anonymity is what makes the internet so awesome.
You can say anything about anyone and nobody knows who the fuck you are.
Aaaah, come here friend, let me hug you! I also like to say anything I want without being fucked over by the government or anybody else.
We would get along.
This article is not detailed enough. It depends on what an "internet ID" actually is. The goobermint isn't putting any chip into any device - they're not smart enough to manage the liability.
The ultimate big brother will be a hardware address assigned to a device which is in your name that you access web resources with.
Doesn't sound like this is where Michigan and Pennsylvannia is going. Sounds like a type of RSA token strategy - something that has been around for over 20 years.
Lots of online fraud in goobermint. This may save taxpayers cash.
Few trust goobermint, but this may actually be a good thing - puts the hacker-theives out of business.
There are already credit cards or debit cards that have a computer chip inside.
the so-called chips is an memory chip with some simple readable data stored - this technology has been around since the 1990s
the "magnetic strip" card is the same thing - just read differently - which has been around since the 1970s.
to have an ID, you either need a token or a hardware ID - like a MAC address on an ethernet card
The tighter they grasp, the more will slip through their fingers. They'll force the arrival of new internet systems they can't sodomize for all their worth. And that cannot come soon enough.
This coming from a hypocrite who paid 5 million to seal his records.
The US Internet is highly controlled. The technology is limited to US. Bandwidth is 1/45th that of Singapore. Encryption is limited so everything on the US Internet is available to the tech sophistocated public-all corporate and military data can be exported out of the country and agencies working for foreign financial interests can take whatever they like.
The Bankers have cut a deal with Russia and China to maintain their oligarchies in exchange for all assets of the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan. It started with Gatt Nafta and has evolved into a total take over and sell out.
The politicians in Washington D.C. are fucking idiots they don't know what they are dealing with when it comes to the oligarchs they are providing services to.
Hey! I know lots of fucking idiots & I must say the people that run the USA are not even that smart.
If they became fucking idiots, they'd be making a step up in intelligence!
My GPG faces no such limits.
No one's stopping me from using it.
From the bozos that brought us Obummercare.
Zero confidence in this administration.
The only thing they seem to do well is murder those suspected of "something" and anyone unfortunate enough to be in the blast radius.
Let them. The fascists neocon are taking us into other wars.
They will end badly.
Hey it's Microsoft's "passport" (circa 1995?) come back to life!
And, well, it's complex to judge whether it's a good or bad idea.
Of course it's already true that if someone with sufficient power wants to know what you've done on the Internet, they will find out, unless you have taken a lot of steps, and maybe even then.
I would just point out that it's not really necessary and it's a lazy man's solution. A better solution is smart routers that do more to track traffic and even content. Then, if for example some spambot starts up somewhere it can be tracked back in realtime and the trunk can set up a firewall against it, all in a couple of seconds. That is, you identify people and perps in realtime, not by filling out forms and paperwork in some static world. Static stuff sucks and will always be defeated.
So long as we don't have Voter ID, i'm good with it.
Why the hell would you think that? annonymity rules! Do you want to be numbered and classified as a threat? Think b4 you talk. It is a good thing for the gov to know what the people think, but not who each one is.
This is what a noose feels like.
"Both party's hour the same, Busch did it two"
I'll tell you where this is headed... they'll try to implement this... but there will be too many problems with it... so they will just decide to put some "ID" into an RFID chip and implant it into your hand... swip your hand over a scanner on your computer and bingo! you are logged into your sites... of course you won't be able to buy or sell anything in the real world without it either... welcome to Revelation and the Mark of the Beast....
Like those implanted in cats and dogs now ?
already obsolete. The netbio chip DHS is buying will read your DNA directly & you can't remove it. RFID chips can be removed.
Just so we're clear: the netbio system requires ZERO implanting. You're born with your DNA. All that's required is you be stabbed with a needle to get a sample.
The White House report this week was a disappointment for sure..translation: "Hey Congress go pass some privacy laws for those consumers" for most of it. I did predict that Richard Cordray when appointed would be pretty useless overall. Granted he has done a few good things but he's limited to low hanging fruit as there's no tech background and like other White House executives like Sebelius and Mary Jo White, we have to wait until they learn a little or hope they get some on the job education before they will venture out of their safe zones of verbiage, while computer code runs "hog ass wild" and makes big profits.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/white-house-privacy-report-privac...
Not once in the report did anyone reflect that the data selling epidemic is related to a big cause of lack of privacy. So yeah there's lots of reason not to have an ID that works anywhere for sure. Look what having someone's social security number open up for the bad guys..so being able to create a bullet proof ID, well I don't see it and it would require yet another data platform that would have to ride on top of software and web services you already use..more complexities and something else to go wrong.
Fascists are still triple-pissed that Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine wrote extensively under pseudonyms.
Gotta nip it. Nip it in the bud.
I want serial number 666.
Next: Federal ID card to be presented to every federal officer on their request.
Like ten years ago I said we'd have to enter a SS# to log on. Things were too good/free and I knew it would come to this.
should anybody order in the responsables name/ID some loads of useless s*it?
If this becomes a reality, FB, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Pinterest - ANY site that allows anyone to open an account that has an email address are done. Half or more of the accounts on all properties are multiples or bot accounts. Internet ID would automatically stop that from happening. Their market caps are based on users, user growth and other garbage. Take away the instant ability to open accounts and they go down the tubes.
I do not see it actually getting any type of foothold. That and I am certain the govt wants the ability to 100% certain know everything and anything you do on the internet in real time to catalog it and have 100% certainty of the individual.
Good fucking luck enforcing/passing this one.
Obama Care is the KEY here, one of the largest contractor for OBAMA-CARE is SERCO-GROUP UK (BUSH FAMILY).
SERCO-GROUP has alredy tagged many humans in UK, with Freescale KL-02 Wifi enabled and the CHIP in your body, when you use a computer it knows everything about you, what you eat, where you are your blood pressure.
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Me thinks this story on ZH, is like all shit, 3rd order,
Fuck yes they will REAL-ID you when you play on the INTERNET(DOD DARPA TCP-IP), but the technology will be in your BODY.
The FINGERPRINT is not your hand, the fingerprint is live, in real time they now can 'put' DNA analysis on a chip,...
OBAMA-CARE is about 'tagging' everybody with active self powering RFID devices, this is one of the BUSH FAMILY's HOLY-GRAIL to put a tagging device in every human on earth.
I thought that was the goal of the Rockefellers.
Yes, Netbio is the manufacturer of this microfluidic chip & has already made deliveries to their #1 client, DHS.
Hilarious....
You can't be anonymous on the internet,
But heaven forbid, you might be forced to show some identification to vote.
Whatever they come up with, some hackers will figure out how to get around, sooner or later.
It seems the US government has forgotten that many valuable sources, and information-seeking users & companies, are not in the USA. It would take not very much for people to blacklist USA sites that require this special "internet ID" and worse, to boycott the companies that are involved at all.
Just like the NSA/Snowden situation has shown the world they are being robbed & spied on by dealing with American tech companies it's no big deal to extend this and say "American Internet trunks / hubs are to be avoided at all costs" and what does that do for US businesses? Collapses them.