blissandzen:

shawnblog:

Get ready for your embedded chips folks!

lintliquor:

President Obama has signaled that he will give the United States Commerce Department the authorityover a proposed national cybersecurity measure that would involve giving each American a unique online identity. Other candidates mentioned previously to head up the new system have included the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security, but the announcement that the Commerce Department will take the job should please groups that have raised concerns over security agencies doing double duty in police and intelligence work. So anyway, what about this unique ID we’ll all be getting? Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to a national ID card, or a government controlled system, but that it would enhance security and reduce the need for people to memorize dozens of passwords online. Sorry, Locke, sounds like a national ID system to us. Anyway, the Obama administration is currently drafting what it’s dubbed the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which is expected at the Department of Commerce in a few months. We’ll keep you posted if anything terrifying or cool happens.

This is not okay.

Given the Federal Government’s recent displays of expertise in managing their own sensitive information, I’m just fine with remembering my passwords, thank you. If you thought Julian Assange was a lot of fun, just imagine the blackmail potential available to any-(pick as many as sound like fun)

• Foreign government
• Crime syndicate
• Political party
• Police department
• Employer
• Employee
• Coworker
• Parent
• Spouse
• Teenager
• Local/Federal prosecutor

with access to everybody’s bank account, credit card records, e-mail, browsing history, and porn habits.

As a casual poll, who thinks this is something the Feds are incapable of bungling?

I am not amused.

(Source: idcaboutostriches)