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USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification
Zentalon writes "The United States Postal Service has announced that it will provide In-Person Proofing (pdf) to physically authenticate individuals before a digital signature certificate is issued to that person. This has a bunch of interesting ramifications; for instance, I could create a simple spam filter that only accepts mail from individuals and organizations that have an authenticated certificate. It could also allow for more secure financial transactions. Anyone know if any other national postal services are planning the same thing?" Funny, they don't seem to always know where to deliver so-called first-class mail ...
I can't trust that they can send a package without damagin/losing it. And now, I'm gonna trust them to properly identify people?
Insert obligatory "the government wants to track you down/harvest your organs/make you a slave of corporate America" conspiracy theory here.