Obama Planning To Give Commerce Department Authority To Create Internet ID...

[Capitalist]

STANFORD, Calif. (CBS News) — 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.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.
The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.
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.”
The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.
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[anuthervoice]

nudge, nudge. they are just trying to protect us...

 

[Capitalist]

nudge, nudge. they are just trying to protect us...

Right...

 

[editec]

I don't understand what they're doing.

Per usual, if I don't understand it, I'm highly suspicious of it.

 

[Stephanie]

The Obama is a tyrant Dictator in the making and his Comrades in Arms adminstation are his brownshits and Jackboots.

people better WAKE UP.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It's just another way to keep tabs on the people. The federal government is out of control.

 

[Article 15]

Thanks guys but I do well enough on my own making my own online ID's and remembering all of my very own passwords.

 

[Trajan]

Thanks guys but I do well enough on my own making my own online ID's and remembering all of my very own passwords.

hummm, if you for instance let firefox remember your passwords, I can see the gov. making a deal with them to surrender your log in and Passwords if asked too. In the end via fisa etc etc. they can get your info. This name and serial number crap is just that. They might be looking for a way to codify snooping.

 

[Article 15]

Thanks guys but I do well enough on my own making my own online ID's and remembering all of my very own passwords.

hummm, if you for instance let firefox remember your passwords, I can see the gov. making a deal with them to surrender your log in and Passwords if asked too. In the end via fisa etc etc. they can get your info. This name and serial number crap is just that. They might be looking for a way to codify snooping.

It wouldn't shock me at all.

 

[Rozman]

I'm sure it will be another 2000+ pages of legislation that no one read and congress will be given 5 mins to debate before a vote....

Oh yeh and government knows what's best for us.....

 

[Revere]

When they say they are not talking about a national ID card, and they are not talking about a government controlled system, they are talking about both.

 

[rightwinger]

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

Thanks President Obama

 

[Stephanie]

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

Thanks President Obama

OMG, if this had been SUGGESTED by Bush, you all would be screeching your heads off.
You Obamabots are truly sheep.

 

[boedicca]

Good-bye privacy and the ability to post anonymously on the internets.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Government in every orifice. I wonder when they'll start charging for our breathing.

 

[rightwinger]

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

Thanks President Obama

OMG, if this had been SUGGESTED by Bush, you all would be screeching your heads off.
You Obamabots are truly sheep.

I also support a national ID . A single biometric ID that acts as identification, social security card, insurance card, drivers license. credit card..Ends Identity theft, illegal aliens

You could also use it when you log onto the internet

 

[NYcarbineer]

Is this what made the birds fall out of the sky in Arkansas?

 

[Revere]

Thanks President Obama

OMG, if this had been SUGGESTED by Bush, you all would be screeching your heads off.
You Obamabots are truly sheep.

I also support a national ID . A single biometric ID that acts as identification, social security card, insurance card, drivers license. credit card..Ends Identity theft, illegal aliens

You could also use it when you log onto the internet

You suck on Government's tailpipe and call it mother's milk.

 

[MaggieMae]

STANFORD, Calif. (CBS News) — 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.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.
The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.
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.”
The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.
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So? Cyber security should be a Number One Priority. I do wish this exercise could be re-run. It didn't get enough attention last February.

Mock cyber attack shows US unpreparedness

During the simulated cyber attack that took place yesterday in Washington and was recorded by the CNN, one thing became clear: the US are still not ready to deflect or mitigate such an attack to an extent that would not affect considerably the everyday life of its citizens.

The ballroom of the Washington's Mandarin Oriental Hotel was for this event transformed into the the White House Situation Room, complete with three video screens displaying maps of the country, simulated updates and broadcasts by "GNN", an imaginary television network "covering" the crisis.

A bevy of former top US officials were given various roles to play:

John Negroponte, the former Director of National Intelligence, as the Secretary of State

Michael Chertoff, the ex DHS Secretary, as the National Security Adviser

Fran Townsend, former White House Homeland Security Advisor, as the Secretary of DHS

John McLaughlin, ex CIA deputy director, as the Director of National Intelligence

Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general, as attorney general

Charles Wald, retired Air Force general, as the Secretary of Defense

Stephen Friedman, former director of the National Economic Council, as the Treasury Secretary.

The entire scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director, and the faux attack began with malware masquerading as a free March Madness application for smartphones. Once activated, it spread fast and first incapacitated cellphone networks, then landlines, the Internet, and finally - aided by mock bombs exploding in a couple of gas pipelines and power stations and a hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast - brought the entire East Coast electrical power grid to its knees. Air traffic was thrown into disorder and commerce came to a standstill.

And this article is enough to scare anyone into realising how serious cyber security should be:

The Enemy Within - Magazine - The Atlantic

When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find Conficker’s creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …

 

[MaggieMae]

Thanks guys but I do well enough on my own making my own online ID's and remembering all of my very own passwords.

It isn't about personal ID's.