Trust Of Government Integrity Is At An All Time Low And Now They Want Us To Do What?

"Tom Groenfeldt reports in Forbes that the U.S. Postal Service has awarded a contract to SecureKey to implement the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCXX) designed to enable individuals to securely access online services at multiple federal agencies — such as health benefits, student loan information, and retirement benefit information — without the need to use a different password or other digital identification for each service. SecureKey already operates a trusted identity service in Canada using identification keys provided by one of five participating Canadian banks. It allows Canadians to connect with 120 government programs online with no additional user names or passwords for everything from benefits queries to fishing licenses. The SecureKey program is designed to connect identity providers — such as banks, governments, healthcare organizations, and others — with consumers' favorite online services though a cloud-based broker service. The platform allows identity providers and online services to integrate once, reducing the integration and business complexity otherwise incurred in establishing many-to-many relationships."

Plus, it makes identity theft that much more convenient!~
 I was just thinking... a single set of credentials for every online service, what could possibly go wrong?

It's cool, they're going to beta it with a key with a chip in it, but by the time the public uses it, it'll just be a bar-code that they stamp on your forehead or right hand.
Kind of looks like three sixes, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

 How long until these become mandatory for all websites. Here's how I could see this going down:

- First, all major government websites require usage of this.
- As more and more brick-and-mortal government offices close, more and more people start using the id.
- VISA, MasterCard, et al begin requiring these for all online banking.
- Taxable web transactions somehow get tied by law to having to use these.
- Soon, ISPs require you to log in with it periodically, (remember AOL internet 'sessions'?)
- All utilities, bills and such paid online start requiring it.
- Social networks require it for 'think of the children' safety.

...Tinfoil futures are a sure bet....we're losing the internet right in front of our faces.

 You just have to send your id in the bottom 64 bits of your ipv6 address to access the internet. Why make the address space so large unless you were going to stuff authentication credentials into every packet? Then they could easily just turn you off whenever necessary.

 This is how social security numbers started.

 The FISA Court Knew the NSA Lied Repeatedly About Its Spying, Approved Its Searches Anyway