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U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID
An anonymous submitter writes: "Ladies and gents, the endtimes have begun. The Seattle Times is reporting that Mark Forman, associate director of information technology at the White House (or 'America's CIO', as he bills himself) has said the feds are considering the use of Microsoft's Passport technology to ID every citizen and every business seeking access to government services online. This is about as scary as it gets." To be fair, it looks very preliminary. Read the article. So many companies have tried to assist the government in providing services over the Net... but I guess if your lobbyists are good enough, you can be heard at the top.
I'm moving to Canada. Who's with me?
Ladies and Gentlemen...
All your citizens are belong to us!
Now I can't imagine being unable to reenter the country because the Passport servers were down again. Grrrreat.
What's your damage, Heather?
You'll need to update Microsoft and have them reset your passport everytime you get a haircut..
Josh Woodward
Canada?
New Zealand?
Iceland?
The Netherlands?
Microsoft: Where do you want to go^H^H flee today?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Does this mean when they sell our email addresses to spam companies the it becomes our constitutional right to receive spam?
I be a believer when Bill Gates declares himself ruler of the United States of the World and starts a campaign to embed flash-chip#666 in everyone's hand with their MS Passport information
heh =)
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Nationalistic US crackers today announced that they had done the impossible - by revoking the PassPort account of Osama bin Laden, recently issued by the INS. An unnamed inside source was quoted as saying, "I didn't know there was ANY way to revoke a passport account. I wish I could use this technique to get rid of the extra accounts I get with every Microsoft purchase. But maybe not, after all my extra votes help on election day."
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Washington, D.C. (AP).- In a surprising turn of events, Americans have elected Bill Gates as President of the United States.
After a recount of all votes, Gates received 89 percent of all votes, leaving oponents Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks with 3 and 2 percent each.
"It's hardly a surprise", said Steve Ballmer, campaign manager for Gates, "Bill has showed great leadership skills and built the greatest company in American history".
Ballmer then made a turnaround in his position about the infamous "Mother's Day documents", and admitted "there might be some truth to them".
The documents were published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an underground group that has been described as the political arm of hackers and ciberterrorists, and wer purported to have been obtained from Microsoft's internal servers. Gates and Ballmer denounced them as a fabrication.
"I guess we can tell you the truth now", said Ballmer, after Gates' voctory was official, "there might be something there".
The documents include a series of emails in which Gates, Ballmer and Microsoft's VP of legal affairs, John Ashcroft, discuss several courses of action in they won the election. Among them were: Change the countrys name to Microsoft States of América, change Gates's title from President to Chief Architect of Everything, and outlaw the use of any software not certified as "secure" by Microsoft Corp.
Critics have pointed to the posibility of electoral fraud, but the governmente has refuted the posibility.
"It's ridiculous. Preposterous", said a spokesman from the Electronics Elections Office. "We used Windows CE doubleplussecure 2018 for the polls machines, and Microsoft XXP Security-Above-All Server for the counting. These are the most secure systems in the world, and they're incapable of errors".
After being questioned on the possibility of a bug in the system, the spokesman refused to answer, pointing out that the recently passed Corporations Antidefamation Act expresely prohibits the discussion of any possible flaws in software products, lest they be used for ciberterrorism purposes.
Thank you for taking your valuable time away from being wined, dined and brainwashed by lobbyists to read this letter. I strongly oppose the U.S. Federal Government setting precedent in support of a known and guilty monopolist. Please insist upon an Open Standard, arrived at by a broad spectrum of those with strong experience in the areas of Preservation of Individual Privacy and Integrity & Security of Data. Do not allow this perceived opportunity to lock the people of the United States of America into a closed standard which has proven non-secure in the past and the goals of the provider so transparent.
Regards, {Insert Your Name Here}
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
that allow things like the holocaust to happen, i'm not even kidding.
'they're just RELOCATING them, it's not that big of a deal...'
'it's only forced labor..'
'well the place is crowded what would YOU do!?'
jesus christ woman. open your fucking eyes. i swear your five year old probably has a better grasp of the situation than you do.
Think different? I'd be happy if most people would just think...
Gee, that sounds like the perfect way to punish someone who abuses their Monopoly power - give them a big contract!
... "Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the w
Burt "Out of my mind back in 5 minutes"
This spam is your spam,
This spam is my spam,
From New York harbor,
To Taiwan's island.
From per seat licensing,
to software pushes,
Blue screens of death for you and me.
- His Billdom
shit, i can't login...
what do you do when you forget your passport login info?
dmarien
So that means that I'm now going to have to have swineakin@hotmail.com tatooed across my forhead? Why oh why didn't I pick a cooler name like 7337 hax0r?
(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
The IRS released today an outline of its plans to have all income tax audits performed by Arthur Andersen.
Just create a new one with false information ...oh sorry that's what people do to start with!
Video Game cheats, hints a
Looks like Larry Ellison and Bill Gates are going to duke it out to be known as the Antichrist, or at least the facilitator of the Antichrist...not that I read the Bible or anything.
> Don't just sit around and post you gripes here and there --- contact your representatives!!!!
I'm not a US citizen (or resident). I'd like to sit around pointing and laughing at how stupid the US government is being, but since our goverment is probably stupid enough to follow your example with added cockups of its own, I'm going to sit around and gripe instead....
rant