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Sometime in the near future, I predict that the US will require some form of photo I.D before using an internet kiosk. As usual, the spin will be to protect the
by hadoukenio 12y ago
Sometime in the near future, I predict that the US will require some form of photo I.D before using an internet kiosk. As usual, the spin will be to protect the children.
- Omniusaspirer 12y agoSouth Korea has pretty much already implemented this with the majority of its major websites requiring their SSN equivalent to register. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number
- zerohm 12y agoThere's always McDonald's, except, you are probably on camera.
- taco_john 12y agoUSA is pretty low on the list of countries I could imagine implementing something like this. Given Russia's, China's, and a large portion of SEA countries' internet censorship track records...
- sspiff 12y agoI'd put the USA pretty high on that list. They've implemented plenty of their take-downs over the past year, and are more capable of introducing something like this than any SEA state.
- untog 12y agoI think many people living in the US are unaware of just how bad the rest of the world has it, sometimes.
- enraged_camel 12y agoThat's not the point at all. The USA claims to be a bastion of democracy and freedom. Therefore it has significantly higher standards to live up to than countries like Russia and China.
- Maakuth 12y agoNo, for your convenience, you only need to identify yourself in the case that you exit the kiosk without using any sort of web service account that can be used to identify you ;)
- blueskin_ 12y agoFortunately, they can't do that for all the open/WEP/WPS wireless APs everywhere.
- rdl 12y agoThey've done a pretty good job of scaring people into securing their APs (which is also a legitimate thing in most cases); just publishing some stories about people having ISP service cut off due to freeloaders doing bad stuff would probably be enough; wouldn't even need to try to prosecute some.
- wwwwwwwwww 12y ago>They've done a pretty good job of scaring people into securing their APs How is this even remotely a bad thing? It's trivial to MITM people on unsecured networks - I can't think of a single consumer router that actually does DHCP snooping to prevent it either.
- nfoz 12y agoI think the technology confuses two things: 1. Encrypted traffic between device and wireless hotspot 2. Restricted access to the wireless hotspot (you need a password or it won't give you service) I want to allow anonymous access, but let the traffic be encrypted. Is there a technical reason why this is not implemented? I'm very sad by the culture (and moreso, the legal necessity) of restricting wireless access. I want to share, and have at times relied on anonymous wifi to help me get home.
- dublinben 12y agoYou can run an access point with all the benefits of WPA2/AES, but make the password really simple. Setting your SSID to "PasswordIsBacon" or just using the same SSID and password is a fairly easy way to share access, without running a completely insecure, unencrypted network.
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- revscat 12y agoI have a better idea. Make it so that some traffic receives higher priority than others, and force content providers to have to pay to play. Then limit competition at the ISP level so that to succeed you have to pay a monopoly to carry your traffic in a timely manner. No need for something as heavy as what you propose.
- MikeTaylor 12y agoGood thing criminals have no way to obtain a fake photo-ID.
- Torgo 12y agoThat's what "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)" is for: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf It's a national smartcard identity program that Obama admin has been pushing for a while.