Howard Schmidt: Today, I am pleased to announce the latest step in moving our Nation forward in securing our cyberspace with the release of the draft National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). This first draft of NSTIC was developed in collaboration with key government agencies, business leaders and privacy advocates. What has emerged is a blueprint to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections through the use of trusted digital identities. No longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services. We seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc) from a variety of service providers -- both public and private -- to authenticate themselves online ...
From the Loose Tweets Sink Fleets Department: What in the world is going on? Oh, it's a hacker causing all of this chaos. A hacker has gotten into the U.S. Federal payroll system and electronically issued paychecks ... to himself! totaling billions of dollars!
Paul Ferguson: We are all responsible. And we are all failing.
Andrew Keen: In the future, I think there will be pockets of outrageously irresponsible, anonymous people ... but for the most part, we will have cleansed ourselves of the anonymous.
Bruce Schneier: Will not wearing a life recorder be used as evidence that someone is up to no good?
New Scientist: The US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect "hostile thoughts" in people walking through border posts, airports and public places ...
Decius: Unless there is some detail that I'm missing, this sounds positively Orwellian.
Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace | 
