Gonna get right on this one - just think, no need to login or to doubt the validity of these websites

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| White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace" |
| from the this-can-only-end-well dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 26, @09:14 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/26/1247201/White-House-Unveils-Plans-For-Trusted-Ident|
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[0]Presto Vivace writes with news that the Obama administration's
cyber-security coordinater, Howard Schmidt, yesterday [1]unveiled a
national plan for "trusted" online identities. Schmidt wrote, "The NSTIC,
which is in response to one of the near term action items in the
President’s Cyberspace Policy Review, calls for the creation of an online
environment, or an Identity Ecosystem as we refer to it in the strategy,
where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with
confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of
the infrastructure that the transaction runs on. For example, no longer
should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially
insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online
services. Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where
individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and
privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital
certificate on their cell phone, etc.) from a variety of service
providers â€" both public and private â€" to authenticate themselves online
for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing
electronic health records, sending email, etc.)." You can read the
[2]full draft of the plan (PDF), and the White House is [3]seeking public
comments on it as well.

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/26/1247201

Links:
0. mailto:marshall@prestovivace.biz
1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace
2. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf
3. http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/

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