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Re: Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords - NYTimes.com
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:08:16 -0700
________________________________________ From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk () gsp org] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:39 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords - NYTimes.com On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:01:38AM -0400, David Farber quoted:
SAN FRANCISCO ? Microsoft, Google and PayPal, a unit of eBay, are among the founders of an industry organization that hopes to solve the problem of password overload among computer users.
But there's no such problem; with free software like Schneier's "Password Safe", it's very easy to keep track of many passwords.
The idea is to bring the concept of an identity card, like a driver?s license, to the online world. Rather than logging on to sites with user IDs and passwords, people will gain access to sites using a secure digital identity that is overseen by a third party.
Which means that when (not if) the third party is successfully hacked, then the users' credentials will command a higher price on the open market because they'll facilitate access to more than one site. Oh, and would anyone like to make a side bet on how many days will elapse before the third party is served with a national security letter compelling full disclosure of every scrap of information in its possession and of course forbidding it from announcing this publicly? ---Rsk ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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