The US government is to introduce a biometric access to the internet, so that to trace every step of the users.
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Greater control is explained with
alleged hacking attacks.
The White House has already required federal agencies to immediately introduce cybersecurity fixes.
The Obama administration used the
reported breach of government employee records to announce its desire to "dramatically
accelerate implementation" of multi-factor authentication for network
access. This is White House speak for personal identity verification, i.e., a
smart card, possibly a biometric one.
In early 2014 the Obama
administration rolled out its "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace," a system that would replace passwords and other internet
login procedures with "a smart identity card, a digital certificate on
their cell phone," and other schemes.
"The original proposal was
quick to point out that this isn't a federally mandated national ID. But if
successful, it could pave the way for an interoperable authentication protocol
that works for any website, from your Facebook account to your health insurance
company," writes Meghan Neal, warning that the proposal is "a scary
can of worms to open."
"The scope of the program
could eventually be expanded into an ID card to access the Internet itself,
greasing the skids for every citizen to require government permission to use
the world wide web, a privilege that could be denied to criminals, accused
terrorists and other undesirables, which according to federal government
literature includes people who hold certain anti-establishment political
beliefs," Paul Joseph Watson claimed.
Earlier this month Obama placed
the blame for one of the largest breaches of federal employees' data on China.
Compromised data held by the Office of Personnel Management appeared to be
Social Security numbers and other "personal identifying information."
The administration did not provide an explanation why China would be interested
in the Social Security numbers of government employees.
The announcement of the
intrusion came on the same day The New York Times reported that the National
Security Agency had expanded warrantless surveillance of foreign hackers, an
effort that could sweep up the information of innocent Americans.
The NSA itself though has
always had the ability to hack computers. Its Tailored Access Operations (TAO)
steals data and inserts invisible "back door" spying devices into
computer systems, including securely encrypted ones of world leaderes. TAO
may in fact be the culprit for security breaches pinned on the Chinese.
The push by the United States
government to ram draconian cybersecurity legislation through Congress and the
deluge of accompanying propaganda relayed by the corporate media conjuring up
phantom North Korean hackers taking down the power grid and other apocalyptic
scenarios suggests that the NSA itself may be behind those cybersecurity
breaches.
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