U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID 764
An anonymous submitter writes: "Ladies and gents, the endtimes have begun. The Seattle Times is reporting that Mark Forman, associate director of information technology at the White House (or 'America's CIO', as he bills himself) has said the feds are considering the use of Microsoft's Passport technology to ID every citizen and every business seeking access to government services online. This is about as scary as it gets." To be fair, it looks very preliminary. Read the article. So many companies have tried to assist the government in providing services over the Net... but I guess if your lobbyists are good enough, you can be heard at the top.
Check the date! (Score:-1, Funny)
That's it! (Score:2, Funny)
I can see it already.... (Score:1, Funny)
All your citizens are belong to us!
It was bad enough when I couldn't get into MSDN (Score:5, Funny)
passport.com (Score:2, Funny)
if it's anything like windows XP... (Score:3, Funny)
Guess it's time to emigrate. (Score:3, Funny)
New Zealand?
Iceland?
The Netherlands?
Microsoft: Where do you want to go^H^H flee today?
Re:That's it! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It was bad enough when I couldn't get into MSDN (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Worst Idea Ever (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I can see it already.... (Score:3, Funny)
I'll believe it when... (Score:2, Funny)
heh =)
In related news... (Score:3, Funny)
In the year 2020... (Score:4, Funny)
After a recount of all votes, Gates received 89 percent of all votes, leaving oponents Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks with 3 and 2 percent each.
"It's hardly a surprise", said Steve Ballmer, campaign manager for Gates, "Bill has showed great leadership skills and built the greatest company in American history".
Ballmer then made a turnaround in his position about the infamous "Mother's Day documents", and admitted "there might be some truth to them".
The documents were published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an underground group that has been described as the political arm of hackers and ciberterrorists, and wer purported to have been obtained from Microsoft's internal servers. Gates and Ballmer denounced them as a fabrication.
"I guess we can tell you the truth now", said Ballmer, after Gates' voctory was official, "there might be something there".
The documents include a series of emails in which Gates, Ballmer and Microsoft's VP of legal affairs, John Ashcroft, discuss several courses of action in they won the election. Among them were: Change the countrys name to Microsoft States of América, change Gates's title from President to Chief Architect of Everything, and outlaw the use of any software not certified as "secure" by Microsoft Corp.
Critics have pointed to the posibility of electoral fraud, but the governmente has refuted the posibility.
"It's ridiculous. Preposterous", said a spokesman from the Electronics Elections Office. "We used Windows CE doubleplussecure 2018 for the polls machines, and Microsoft XXP Security-Above-All Server for the counting. These are the most secure systems in the world, and they're incapable of errors".
After being questioned on the possibility of a bug in the system, the spokesman refused to answer, pointing out that the recently passed Corporations Antidefamation Act expresely prohibits the discussion of any possible flaws in software products, lest they be used for ciberterrorism purposes.
Dear Congressman Bob... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you for taking your valuable time away from being wined, dined and brainwashed by lobbyists to read this letter. I strongly oppose the U.S. Federal Government setting precedent in support of a known and guilty monopolist. Please insist upon an Open Standard, arrived at by a broad spectrum of those with strong experience in the areas of Preservation of Individual Privacy and Integrity & Security of Data. Do not allow this perceived opportunity to lock the people of the United States of America into a closed standard which has proven non-secure in the past and the goals of the provider so transparent.
Regards, {Insert Your Name Here}
you know it's people like you (Score:1, Funny)
that allow things like the holocaust to happen, i'm not even kidding.
'they're just RELOCATING them, it's not that big of a deal...'
'it's only forced labor..'
'well the place is crowded what would YOU do!?'
jesus christ woman. open your fucking eyes. i swear your five year old probably has a better grasp of the situation than you do.
Good job! (Score:5, Funny)
MS Navy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Worst Idea Ever (Score:3, Funny)
As Sung to the tune "This Land is Your Land" (Score:2, Funny)
This spam is my spam,
From New York harbor,
To Taiwan's island.
From per seat licensing,
to software pushes,
Blue screens of death for you and me.
- His Billdom
Re:OK guys, for real now... (Score:2, Funny)
what do you do when you forget your passport login info?
Great... (Score:2, Funny)
So that means that I'm now going to have to have swineakin@hotmail.com tatooed across my forhead? Why oh why didn't I pick a cooler name like 7337 hax0r?
In related news... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OK guys, for real now... (Score:3, Funny)
Two man battle for title of Antichrist (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OK guys, for real now... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not a US citizen (or resident). I'd like to sit around pointing and laughing at how stupid the US government is being, but since our goverment is probably stupid enough to follow your example with added cockups of its own, I'm going to sit around and gripe instead....