Michael Daniel, the White House cyber security coordinator, really hates passwords. It's no surprise that he believes the solution to online security is biometrics. This has been the goal of the Obama White House for quite a while. In April of 2011, the White House announced the National Strategy for Trusted
Identities in Cyberspace. This is a program which aims to ensure that if you are browsing the internet, the government will know who you are and what you are looking at. They claim that it would be voluntary, but what they mean by this is that using the internet would be voluntary.
They have been silently working to implement the so-called "identity ecosystem" that is one of the foundations of the National Strategy for Trusted
Identities in Cyberspace program. The fact that what they are proposing will not do what they claim to want is irrelevant. They are not really concerned about identity theft or other criminal activity. They are mostly concerned that the media propaganda machine that they have spent years creating is breaking down when normal people are given a platform to speak. They need a means to track and arrest those who exercise their first amendment rights online.
Obama’s cybersecurity adviser: Biometrics will replace passwords for safety’s sake
The days of using a password to access
a bank account or cellphone will soon be a thing of the past,
President Obama’s top cybersecurity adviser said Thursday.
The risk of getting hacked by criminals
has grown so widespread that far more sophisticated identification
technology — including biometric scanning devices — will become
the norm, said Michael Daniel, the White House’s cybersecurity
coordinator.
“You’ve started to see some of that
with the emergence of the fingerprint readers,” said Mr. Daniel,
adding that the technology will become increasingly mainstream as
cellphone cameras, “hard” card readers and other authentication
gadgets replace the annoying process for millions of Americans of
punching in a password to confirm their identity.
“Frankly, I would really love to kill
the password dead as a primary security method because it’s
terrible,” Mr. Daniel said at an event hosted by the Center for
National Policy, Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Christian Science
Monitor
Since passwords can so easily be
hacked, a variety of new technologies will provide more protection
and some “will be biometric related,” he said.
Mr. Daniel’s comments come against a
backdrop of recent friction between the U.S. Justice Department and
private tech giants like Apple, which unveiled a host of new privacy
features for its iPhones and iPads last month designed to frustrate
government snoopers.
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