The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace has been released and there are some differing opinions on whether it’s a good or a bad thing. In the first in a series of podcasts exploring the strategy, Jim Harper, director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, doesn’t think it’s a good idea. The author of Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood says that any online identity scheme needs to come from the private sector with no government involvement.
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Jim Harper inadvertently I believe made the case fully for NSTIC versus his intent of judging the Strategy as being misguided. He is stuck in a National ID bias which is contrary to the NSTIC Strategy. Attacking Corporate and Private Sector identity Eco-system that is already in place and growing is similar to the same critics which suggested Personal Computers would never be as powerful tool as the Mainframe Systems of the 1960's through the 1980's. There was never an intention of creating a National ID from the first place in the Strategy. His discussion and Bias in National Security Circles has tainted his judgement of what is underway and being lead as much by Privacy Advocates as by Security Professionals.