FOX Business News has published an article about Online ID.\u00a0 They say participation in the program will be voluntary (good — there are a lot of online transactions that do not and should not require authentication back to a specific person).\u00a0 It is being touted as an improvement over today’s archaic and dangerous username\/password verification system.<\/p>\n
Sure, if<\/em> they could get the system implemented and if<\/em> they can get people to understand how to use it, it has potential<\/em> to allow many more trusted transactions to take place on line.<\/p>\n I’m reminded of the military’s efforts to get everyone to use signed and verified email with the Common Access Card (CAC).\u00a0 Yes, that wonderful card that was going to allow access to the internet, verifiable signatures via email, building access, and maybe even allow the use of replicators in the dining hall (ok, I made up that last one).\u00a0 This was all supposed to happen more years ago than I can count.\u00a0 To my knowledge it’s being used to gain access to the network, but electronic signatures, as far as I know, are still hit and miss.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 People don’t understand them and can’t get them to work.\u00a0 The CAC cards are fragile.\u00a0 They have an expiration date of three years from date of issue, but I was never able to get one to last that long before it wore out and had to be replaced.\u00a0 Once it dies, you are locked out of the network and the ability to do any work.\u00a0 You just hope your personnel unit’s system is operational on the day you need to get it replaced.<\/p>\n With online ID, issued by the state (according to the article), I imagine getting your credentials replaced would be like going to the DMV but probably more often.\u00a0 I wonder if some states would incorporate it into the driver license\/official ID card model?\u00a0 In the military, I did not have to pay to get my ID card replaced when it died an untimely death.\u00a0 Don’t count on that luxury with your state-issued Online ID.\u00a0 I predict an easy $20 or more to get it replaced if it quits working.\u00a0 What happens if you lose it? Does that mean your identity has been compromised in an irretrievable way?<\/p>\n But, more to the point, the Department of Defense has been trying to implement a system that sounds very much like this for well over a decade, and after huge efforts to educate a captive audience and a massive expenditure of time, intellect,\u00a0 and money, they are only incrementally successful at meeting their ultimate goal.\u00a0 For this to take place on a national scale, even voluntarily, might be difficult to impossible at best.\u00a0 On the other hand, maybe if if it is<\/em> voluntary, the effort might be more successful.\u00a0 There are businesses trying to get their model for this infused in the infrastructure.\u00a0 Maybe a capitalist, free market approach, over time, will result in a successful implementation and acceptance.<\/p>\n Remember the days when you could move to a new town and essentially get a fresh start in life?\u00a0 Some of you do, but many of you are too young to ever know what it’s like not to have a Social Security Number from birth.\u00a0 To some extent, the internet allows someone to do that (not as completely as the “old” days, but close).\u00a0 I sense those days are drawing to a close.\u00a0 That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but you’re watching the wild west frontier days of the internet draw to a close.\u00a0 I hope you appreciate the historical value of living in these times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOX Business News has published an article about Online ID.\u00a0 They say participation in the program will be voluntary (good — there are a lot of online transactions that do not and should not require authentication back to a specific person).\u00a0 It is being touted as an improvement over today’s …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-progress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}