{"id":24470,"date":"2014-10-28T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2014-10-28T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:49:56","slug":"white-house-aims-to-replace-website-passwords-with-federal-authentication-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/white-house-aims-to-replace-website-passwords-with-federal-authentication-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Aims to Replace Website Passwords With Federal Authentication Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has announced today that a long-standing plan to roll out a federal &#8220;Internet ID&#8221; authentication scheme that would be used to log in to all websites across the Internet will move forward, and the service <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/222057-white-house-official-we-simply-have-to-kill-off-the-password\">will launch in six to twelve months<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We simply have to kill off the password,&#8221; insisted White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel. The initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/01\/09\/obama-moves-forward-with-federal-internet-id-scheme\/\">began in 2011<\/a>, with an eye toward public-private plans, but seems now to be centering on wearable authentication bracelets that Americans would apparently get instead of passwords. <\/p>\n<p>Private multiple site authentication systems like OpenID have been around for years, and logging in to websites with a Facebook or Twitter account is also becoming popular. The downside to this, from the administration&#8217;s perspective, seems to be that they don&#8217;t have direct control over the backbone of such a system. <\/p>\n<p>Given the huge privacy implications of such a federally-run scheme, it&#8217;s hard to imagine eager adoption. Distrust in the wake of the NSA surveillance leaks, along with the federal government&#8217;s other fiascos in the webspace, like the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare website, make this a recipe for monumental failure. <\/p>\n<p>Details are scant, and in the past the administration insisted the program would be &#8220;purely voluntary,&#8221; though if the goal is really to &#8220;kill off the password&#8221; nationwide, it clearly will not remain voluntary for long, and full-scale government control over your ability to log in to websites seems to be the ultimate goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has announced today that a long-standing plan to roll out a federal &#8220;Internet ID&#8221; authentication scheme that would be used to log in to all websites across the Internet will move forward, and the service will launch in six to twelve months. &#8220;We simply have to kill off the password,&#8221; insisted White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24471,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}