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Re:Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administra... by protomyth on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:44PM (#2082247)
I'm really not sure we are at the point where we should be picking. We are still very early and e-commerce seems to be doing fine without it.
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Re:Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administra... by wmf on Saturday January 08, 2011 @12:07AM (#2082309)
We are "very early" in the sense that we're in the same place as 1996: usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, and SSL. (Or maybe we're worse off, since we didn't have much phishing in 1996.) What is it going to take to get some progress here?
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Re:Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administra... by webXL on Saturday January 08, 2011 @08:02AM (#2082982)
It's not the government's job to pick winners and losers. Think about the words you selected: bully and progress. Together those don't sound very democratic to me. It's ends justifying the means thinking that gets well-intentioned people into trouble. Progress is people wising up about security, not forcing them to use certain technologies.
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