{"id":210,"date":"2005-01-17T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/the-uk-ideal-government-project-and-digital-identities"},"modified":"2005-01-17T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T20:02:24","slug":"the-uk-ideal-government-project-and-digital-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/the-uk-ideal-government-project-and-digital-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK Ideal Government Project and Digital Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idealgovernment.com\/index.php\/weblog\/george_mason_university_glitch_is_a_glimpse_of_the_scale_of_id_calamity_the\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Heath<\/a> writes about the ongoing universal identity debate in the UK in the response to a few blog posts including mine on the George Mason University identity break-in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The sickening logic is that these ill-conceived university ID systems make appealing targets for identity thieves, and that a compulsory UK ID system will be far more appealing still. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess if government was on the leading edge rather than the trailing edge of technology innovation, they would design a digital identity system whose #1 requirement was &quot;resilient in the face of digital identity attacks&quot;. When designing a new identity system, one has the luxury of prioritizing requirements in that way, and there is little excuse not to do this in this year 2005.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/2005\/01\/14.html#a94\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Cameron points out<\/a> when discussing his newly published 6th law, the inevitable side-effect of the increasing importance of digital identities are ever-more sophisticated identity attacks. Identity attacks are a growth business, no question.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine if a for-profit hacker &mdash; or worse, a hostile government or non-state actor &mdash; hacked into a digital identity database containing rich identity information about virtually everybody in a country. And unless an identity system is designed to resilient from day one, it is going to happen with a likelihood of 1. The only question is when it is going to happen, and even if we are going to know it once it has happened. Stuff for a Tom Clancy novel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Heath writes about the ongoing universal identity debate in the UK in the response to a few blog posts including mine on the George Mason University identity break-in: The sickening logic is that these ill-conceived university ID systems make appealing targets for identity thieves, and that a compulsory UK ID system will be far&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}