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Actual draft of the proposal from June 2010: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf Note that if [generic

• forensic 16y ago
  >Note that if [generic scary three letter agency] wants to spy on you it's already quite easy for them to do so (see FISA, CALEA, NSLs, Sugar Grove, etc). It's not really about spying. It's about a government bureaucracy having the power to control your identity. If Visa cancels my card I can get an AMEX. The CIA has limited reach here.. the alphabet soups can't easily freeze my bank account. But if the government controls my ID card, they can shut me down utterly and I have no recourse aside from the broken judicial system. The simple fact of the matter is that corporations such as Visa and HSBC and Equifax are more trustworthy than the government. Giving the government the ability to authenticate humans online is giving them WAY TOO MUCH UNCHECKED POWER.
  • trotsky 16y ago
    But if the government controls my ID card Check all that apply: [ ] State Picture ID [ ] Passport [ ] Social Security Card The simple fact of the matter is that corporations such as Visa and HSBC and Equifax are more trustworthy than the government. You should really read the proposal. It's a federation of privately run PKI authorities. Potentially people like Visa, HSBC and Equifax.