Friday, February 24, 2012

Web Identity Ever Catch On.

There are people on the internet that have passwords for many things they log into. Yahoo, Google, Facebook ,Twitter ,and Apple are just a few that are big names in the internet world right now. Many people use the same password for all their online sites. They share the password with people that are in their family or very close to them all the time. This article wants those things to change up just a little. They believe that everyone should have a password that contains something similar that they only know themselves. The company NSTIC wants people to have one username and one password for everything they do. For example when they log onto Google and Facebook they should be able to use the same information for both.This would keep peoples identity safe from others. Identity theft is something big that is happening now on these sites. People can be ordering things off other peoples accounts and stealing their identity.NSTIC is doing an experiment that gives a certain amount of people an online ID.They are going to try to stop the identity theft that is going on around the world all at once. NSTIC is making it harder for people to steal identity and making punishments for people who try and get caught red handed doing so.The government is getting bad views because in the past things did not work out so well with trying to do the same thing. The face of this operation actually has no face yet. People may have to get text messages of their temporary password at the moment until they get everything in order. I think that this would be very good for people and stopping identity theft from happening. I just hope the government has a good idea that will actually be successful this time and not back fire. This world is getting smarter each and everyday. As long as the government stays ahead of the people trying to do wrong then everything should be fine.

2 comments:

  1. I found this really interesting because I have facebook, twitter, google mail, yahoo mail, aol mail and so on. I have a different passwords for each one which gets confusing to remember. I think a universal password is easier but it comes down to the fact that it may be more dangerous for you. If a hacker finds out one of your passwords, it means that they are going to know all your passwords to every different account you have. Identity theft is a big problem in the United States, and the government does need to make the internet safer in order to protect people's identity. I do not want to have to worry about someone getting my social security number off the internet. I really hope that the government can do this and make the internet safer so people can have one password.

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  2. This really interests me a lot because for most of the sites I go to I have basically the same password for each and every single one of them. It is true people can find out what your password somehow, but they will eventually think it's the same password for everything else to. I believe that if you have different passwords for everything it will get really confusing at times. Personally if I would have different passwords for everything like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, etc... I would honestly forget. That's to many accounts passwords to remember. I make sure that my username is the same thing for everything. Identity theft is really a huge problem out here in the world. That's why people need to make sure only themselves know the passwords to their accounts and not to hand it to know one else. Not even people that are really close to them. Because you will never know what next person will have your information. The government needs to resolve this situation.

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