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emarkay
June 27th, 2010, 05:18 PM
"Primary reason for this issue - fundamentally flawed software infrastructure."


What more needs to be said, IMHO?

This is your chance to comment, and possibly change the whole of "cyberspace".

http://nstic.ideascale.com/

(Above comment found here: http://nstic.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Primary-reason-for-this-issue---fundamentally-flawed-software-infrastructure./45503-9351)

Lucradia
June 27th, 2010, 05:21 PM
"You need to login before performing this action."

Sorry, no.

emarkay
June 28th, 2010, 11:53 PM
"You need to login before performing this action."
Sorry, no.

To comment, sure and why not, but to read, it's all there annon'ly.

Old_Grey_Wolf
June 29th, 2010, 12:55 AM
It seems to protect you from identity theft; however, things like Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) make it easy for "big brother", be it a company or government, to track what you are doing. Before you support this you need to think about the risk of identity theft versus the risk of loosing privacy. ;)

Sporkman
June 29th, 2010, 12:56 AM
Here's some background:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace

Bachstelze
June 29th, 2010, 01:00 AM
The basic idea is good: the infrastructure of the Internet is "flawed". I put "flawed" between quotes, because what t really means in that context is that it does not allow any kind of "Trusted Identities" (whether or not that is a flaw depends on your personal opinion, I think it is not). If you want those, whatever they mean, you'd have to reinvent the Internet. Nothing to do with Microsoft.

emarkay
June 29th, 2010, 05:15 PM
The basic idea is good: the infrastructure of the Internet is "flawed". I put "flawed" between quotes, because what t really means in that context is that it does not allow any kind of "Trusted Identities" (whether or not that is a flaw depends on your personal opinion, I think it is not). If you want those, whatever they mean, you'd have to reinvent the Internet. Nothing to do with Microsoft.

Trusted Identities are not absolute - they are only as good as the data they are given and the comparitive data they are evaluated against. No gain there to the clever or stupid.

My point is that until the "world" realizes the compromises and dangers of the "first line of defense" (what the end user uses; the OS and browser), anything beyond that is just wasted.

Until you remember to lock your doors, any security system, offensive weapons or legal intimidation will be useless.