Consultation on change to RIP interception definition

[Peter Tomlinson]

Nicholas Bohm wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 14:35, Peter Tomlinson wrote:
>   
>> Ian Batten wrote:
>>     
>>>> However, there are global moves to create a common method to be far
>>>> more secure online (an eID method) so long as you have your internet
>>>> transactions secured with a user ID [1] digital certificate that is
>>>> invoked by some specific action by the end user (e.g. with a
>>>> password or by plugging in a physical token) at the start of such a
>>>> session. Once we get that operating...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The heat death of the universe will occur sooner.  Why would anyone
>>> voluntarily sign up for such a scheme, which makes ID cards look
>>> positively cuddly?
>>>       
>> You might have to in order to do business with some big, global online
>> retailers - 'thin client' to go in your PC has been mentioned, but
>> Chatham House Rule applies to the meeting at which the ID of the
>> source was mentioned (i.e. I can't say who).
>>
>> Directgov, however, wants a method just for UK public sector services,
>> but the more open concept of making this available to all online
>> service providers has been indicated to them. And the US White House
>> consulted this summer, asking for ideas for a general method to have
>> safe online IDs.
>>     
> A cynical way of looking at this is that the (UK) Government has failed
> in its attempt to get compulsory ID cards, and is now trying to get
> together a global alliance of governments and private sector bodies in
> order to make it impracticably inconvenient for citizens to do without
> the ID they crave.
Actually I don't see any sign of UK govt working with anybody else on 
this, and its only part of UK govt at the moment - the proposal (and the 
couple of OJEU notices put out to ask for information about methods 
offered, plus the G-Digital web site http://gdigital.direct.gov.uk) 
appear to be simply blinkered thinking. The private sector initiative 
that I referred to appears to be looking at the global scene, in the way 
that increasingly I see big internet players simply trying to rise above 
national interests because their interest is in business, everywhere. 
The USA federal initiative does, however, appear to be rather more open.

Peter