"5 reasons why the proposed ID scheme for Internet users is a bad idea

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"5 reasons why the proposed ID scheme for Internet users is a bad idea
By Dancho Danchev | May 27, 2010, 11:59am PDT
Source ZDNet
 
"Imagine waking up in a world, where you would need to use two-factor authentication, or perhaps even biometric based ID, in order to do anything online. The reason for this? Accountability and supposedly, prevention of cybercrime.
 
This may well sound like the long-term reality, but Kaspersky’s CEO Eugene Kaspersky has been pushing the idea for years.  According to a recently published article, he still believes that the time has come for a mass adoption of hardware IDs affecting every Internet user.
 
Here are five reasons why I think this is a bad idea, if not one that is virtually impossible to implement. ......"
 
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/5-reasons-why-the-proposed-id-scheme-for-internet-users-is-a-bad-idea/6527
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