+- Hack Forums (https://hackforums.net)
+-- Forum: General Topics (https://hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=7)
+--- Forum: World (https://hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=445)
+---- Forum: News and Happenings (https://hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=89)
+---- Thread: Obama wants Internet ID for Americans (/showthread.php?tid=972282)
Obama wants Internet ID for Americans - xSkiLLedx - Jan 13, 2011
Quote:President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.
The idea is to create an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, while the government says this is not a "National ID Card" it does appear to be very similar but restricted only to Internet activities.
"We are not talking about a national ID card, we are not talking about a government-controlled system.
What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy; reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."
While all the details are not yet set in stone, nor have they been passed into law, it seems like the Obama administration wants tighter control and easier access to track down individuals on the Internet.
Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet.
'I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to,' and that there's no chance that 'a centralized database will emerge,' from this movement".
How the Internet will react to such a mandate is still unknown and how it will play into being anonymous online is still up in the air.
The only thing for certain is that the government wants to be able to track your online activities with greater ease.
Source: WN Article
* - krrish - Jan 13, 2011
Well what can be done by us.
I think it for none.
If you want mac/windows keys then pm me
* - Agentdigitalife - Jan 13, 2011
Uploader, Where did you get this info from?
* - PiraX - Jan 13, 2011
Holy fucking shit. If this is real, I will create an underground mesh-net and evade using the "Internet" at all... BTW, this is my 700th post.
* - ♂ Elektrisk ♂ - Jan 13, 2011
Sources covering this:
http://www.examiner.com/internet-security-in-national/obama-s-internet-id-plan-the-basics
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/11/businessinsider-obamas-internet-id-2011-1.DTL
* - Vexes - Jan 13, 2011
hmm...i agree with pyrax. I am actually going to tell my friend about this :S
* - #OccupyHackForums - Jan 13, 2011
Obama will most likely get assassinated if does this.
* - Yum - Jan 13, 2011
Ok first he stops dropshipping online now he want's to give us an ID. Big change from Bush, I don't think he knew what the internet was. Obama better lose in the next election.
* - Lightangel - Jan 13, 2011
I think he will do it if he has the power to. Besides, it's only for US residents, I have no business in this.
* - ♂ Elektrisk ♂ - Jan 13, 2011
How would this even work? How would non-US companies be able to verify your number with your identity?
* - chroniccommand - Jan 13, 2011
Lol bullshit the Internet is free I'm not gonna have a card just to get on the Internet.
* - deafness - Jan 13, 2011
It is aganist the net neutral law as well as evade our privacy and such, I believe.
* - Rippin™ - Jan 13, 2011
Yeah, this is smart. So now if you get hacked you get hacked for everything lmao.
* - Zeon - Jan 13, 2011
This is absurd. And people believe America is "The Land of the Free"?
* - Hуѕтєяιa X™ - Jan 13, 2011
(Jan 13, 2011 12:51 PM)Zeon Wrote: This is absurd. And people believe America is "The Land of the Free"?
America stopped being "The land of the free" when he walked through the white house doors. :)