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Yesterday, May 11, was when the Real ID Act, signed into law three years ago to the day, was due to kick in.
The law set national standards for all state driver’s licenses and other forms of photo identification. It directs states to store people’s drivers licens ... Continue reading »
The law set national standards for all state driver’s licenses and other forms of photo identification. It directs states to store people’s drivers licens ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
1 year ago
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.
10 months ago