Well at least those cyber spies and thieves can breathe a little easier.
The U.S government is going to start testing its new and well-thought-out identity consolidation program.
It's the NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace), and it basically works like an online Uncle Sam-approved driver's license.
What a great idea!
Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong.
At all.
It's not as though our trusted Uncle Sam has a near-omnipotent arm of data-hungry spy weenies with a track record for abusing their powers that's so long and awful it makes me sprint to the liquor cabinet whenever I think about it.
Or that the same people who are supposed to protect our most valuable data -- like, say, the IRS -- couldn't be bothered to upgrade their non-secure desktop OS (Windows XP, which now stands for eXtra Porous) before the support deadline ran out.
Nope, none of that's a problem.
So why not implement an identity consolidation program that we're probably going to be forced to use with any government site and eventually a growing population of miserly app builders who'd rather hawk an NSTIC logo than shell out for more expensive and undoubtedly more secure identity management platforms?
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