Posted on 08/22/2013 2:30:58 AM PDT by markomalley
SecureKey, based in Toronto, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the USPS to provide a cloud-based authentication infrastructure.
Get ready for a new set of abbreviations. This is part of some federal programs that have been underway for several years, mostly below the radar — at least this is the first I have heard of it despite being an avid reader of tech publications. But apparently a lot of people have been working on this — some of the relevant Web sites and information sources are listed below.
The Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCXX) is designed to enable individuals to securely access online services —such as health benefits, student loan information, and retirement benefit information—at multiple federal agencies without the need to use a different password or other digital identification for each service. The first federal agency to use it will be the Veterans Administration.
SecureKey already operates a trusted identity service in Canada. Andre Boysen, chief marketing officer for SecureKey Technologies, said that Canadians using identification keys provided by one of five participating Canadian banks, can connect with 120 government programs online with no additional user names or passwords for everything from benefits queries to fishing licenses. He compared the identification network concept to payment networks.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
If they end up implementing this, you'll have to plug your CAC into your computer before being able to access da Interwebz.
Look at it on the bright side: it will be easier for NSA to perform queries on their Zetabyte data warehouse. /s
Voter ID is a burden and this is not?
Folks will not comply, period.
What could possibly go wrong?
I think there’s a tack here to employ. Republicans need to tie ANY Affordable Care Act database, access and sharing requirements among any and all databases with a cross-check function for Voter ID and eligibility and single-use throughout the country.
IOW make the bastards police the double, triple registrations, cross check addresses, etc. all that.
No Voter Truth, then No Healthcare Funding.
As the article reads, if factual, it isn’t a matter of complying or not complying. This would be a single password to access federal government interface concerning all federal government programs and YOU. So if you’re part of several federal programs, instead of several passwords to interface with them online, there would be a single password that would work with all of them.
It also claims the password would be secure. That part is a real stretch.
I’m just sayin’ what the article is about.
Complying or not complying doesn’t seem to match up with the content.
Will this be supervised by NSA (like their existing snoop system) or by the IRS (like our new “affordable” medical system)? Or will we have a brand new bureaucracy with all the efficiency of the Motor Vehicle Department and all the warmth of the IRS blended into one agency that tracks everything we say and do?
No obamacare “healthcare” funding, period.
No matter what else.
Do not fund the BEAST under any circumstances.
Then start voting against the Republicans that are the people giving Barry the money.
DING! DING! DING!
Do these morons really expect anyone to trust them? I sure as hell never will, ever........not like I did before anyway.
Sounds like an opportunity for free enterprise to build, I don’t know, maybe something we could call the “open access internet” where just ANYONE could get online.
Anything which includes both "Obama" and "Trusted" in the same phrase should immediately elicit a physiological fight or flight response.
No doubt we will be able to vote from home. And they won’t cheat, honest...
Yep. JUST to access Federal Government Programs. Just like your Social Security Number is NOT supposed to be used for identification.
Pull the other one: it’s got bells on it. . .
If it is highly secure, it will be inflexible. Errors will be nearly impossible to correct. If, on the other hand, it is correctable, it will be open to fraud by this means.
But, not to worry, the government will take care of us. It might be the One World government, though. I’m sure this system will eventually be integrated with other systems, starting with Canada, and then Europe. It’s all to our benefit. (/s)
Yes they will comply...can you imagine all these interweb addicted folks boycotting the web for long?
How long would you go without access to your Free Republic?
When just in the last few days I had to go without internet or very limited amounts because I was changing carriers at my house.
Yes it can be done.
.....And NO you are WRONG.
And we all interact with the government on some level.
IRS
DMV
BWC
Unemployment compensation
Social Security
And that is that...you must comply...
That is why one keeps a low profile.
You got it.
Ha ha. I think not.
I will not and I can assure you that ways to defeat it will rise. Just like the new black boxes in cars... they can and are being defeated.
“announced it has been awarded a contract by the USPS to provide a cloud-based authentication infrastructure”
USPS...crap now we’ll have to wait inline to get on the internet...only to be confronted by a lazy snippy USPS computer
The 47% which has now become the 51%, will lap this up like soup, they trust the government with their very lives as proven by who they've voted for in the last two presidential elections.
oh, and by the way, all you conservative dumbasses will be given armbands you have to wear in public. Next, Christians will have to have a tattoo on their right hand to purchase anything...
There will be exceptionally burdensome workarounds, I can assure you. People like the Mennonites, who generally eschew technology, will not comply due to religious reasons. As such, there will have to be ways to do things traditionally through the mail or in person.
I am a systems engineer and have worked in IT security for over a decade, and I can tell you this stinks to Hell and back. Any system which the government controls will have backdoors for the government to use. They'll know the salt algorithm used for password hashing. They'll be able to decrypt your passwords, and since almost everyone uses the same password for everything, they'll have access to Facebook, etc.
This is a continuation of the camel coming into the tent after its nose brushed aside the flap with Snowden's revelations. They are going full bore into managing your entire life, cradle to grave, every aspect, no exceptions. It will eventually come out that this new government password will be accepted on PayPal, major banks, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Why? Because that means they can access everything about you and all without having to cloak-and-dagger!
Full human command and control is the name of the game here. The power brokers in DC and in the highest reaches of wealth are doing everything they can to control what we do, when we do it, and how often we do it. Dissent will be criminal.
Sure. Do you think any sane person is going to trust any government with his data and/or passwords?
Trust a bunch of White-hating Christian-hating death-cult-loving PC fascists with our info? Go pound camel dung!
Yep, the government and their big corporate regulators/cronies will simply make it part of some security accreditation requirement.
Hyperboria is a global decentralized network of "nodes" running cjdns software. The goal of Hyperboria is to provide an alternative to the internet with the principles of security, scalability and decentralization at the core. Anyone can participate in the network by locating a peer that is already connected.
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I like your thought process. Now the conclusion. It will be either highly secure or correctable. Thus, there can be no good outcome from the program.
"You are only 7 Democratic votes away from getting your new liver. Forward, comrade!"
Ha. (repeat 1000x.)
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Exactly.
If they think certain minorities are too helpless to obtain photo ID - then how the heck are they supposed to navigate this?
I saw this yesterday on /. and laughed out loud. As always, the timing of government agencies is impeccable.
I’m sure the NSA has aleready decided not demand access. /s
And the worst part is, it will probably be running Windows, so it will spend more time booting, being patched, being scanned for viruses and mailware than it will actually doing anything useful.
DMV isn’t Federal
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