> If the government collaborated with industry to launch a “trustable” federated identity (TFI) service Lost me there. You know that's not possible, right? (th

> If the government collaborated with industry to launch a “trustable” federated identity (TFI) service Lost me there. You know that's not possible, right? (the trustable part) > We want it to be as hard to break into our computers as it is to break into a bank vault. Except that from everything the government is saying today they absolutely do not want computers to be "as hard to break into as possible" (think of the children!). Their solution seems to be "getting deep access into everything and...identifying who the attacker is after the fact (at best)". And of course the main reason they want that is because it gives them even broader spying powers than they have now where they have to be very careful about who and what they access so as to not get caught.