DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Is Real ID Really Going to Happen?

  • dragon2eden · 1 year ago
    Heh. As someone who works at DHS (which sometimes seems to stand for "Department of Hubristic Somnambulance") the fate of Real ID reminds me a little of the fate of the National Response Plan. No one had run it past state and local partners to see if the people they were going to inflict it upon might have anything they'd like to say about it. Unsurprisingly, it collapsed as well.
  • jrbehrman · 1 year ago
    What comes next?



    While Congress argues over which cronies get trickle-down money for huge IT projects that never work, the "next" -- a serious alternative -- is rolling out in cyberspace where there are standards and capital, not just the lies and theft, fraud and debt that legislative sham and patronage consist of.



    Virtually every firm of any consequence at the "Web Services" level of technology has agreed to support admiralty-type "Laws of Identity".



    So, currently shipping software from Microsoft and Norton, to name a few firms, supports interoperable "infocards" and the cryptographic infrastructure for using them to assert and validate identity as a series of claims. Once integrated in embedded systems like cell phones, auto ignition switches, door locks, and (my favorite) class rings, this technology will be ubiquitous and ... revolutionary.



    It will restore provision for personal privacy and collective security to the category of "inalienable" rights that the corrupt, ignorant, but bi-partisan, busybodies in Congress today are oblivious to.
  • Paul Wright · 1 year ago
    The Real ID crosses a line...and once it's been crossed there is no coming back.
  • robert330 · 2 months ago
    This is not much surprising, they always talking and saying something that could not happen.
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  • Big · 1 month ago
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