A snub from Dept of Defense PKI admins provoked Biometric contractors to out an online authentication transition.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
When a School board denies a Christian child an education in Texas, legislation multiplies
RE: School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID- Student ID flap
UPDATE: 1/21/13 -- CNSNews.com clarified Andrea Hernandez refused all participation in the newer RFID badge system, including the new badge itself at John Jay High. She requested to use her old ID to communicate distinction, as refusing to participate in the program opposed to giving the appearance of blending in with other children compliant with the program.
BTC - WIRED.com's mods may not publish my comments. My efforts to inform to Dave Kravets concerning a $300 million education disbursement went directly to the Internet ethers, unrecognized.
That's okay. That's why when Brooking's doesn't like what I have to say, I can publish here. BeatTheChip is a pretty reliable public interest source on identity surveillance measures anyway.
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Here is what went muzzled:
John Jay High is fighting to *not* educate a Christian child in Texas. The NISD's case with the public hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of making it if they don't get a course correction matching the public's real interests.
Good luck. Texas Senator Estes joined the effort, filing a bill to ban RFID in schools, aligning legislation with Rep. Kolkhorst's House bills, according to the Weatherford Democrat yesterday.
UPDATE: 1/21/13 -- CNSNews.com clarified Andrea Hernandez refused all participation in the newer RFID badge system, including the new badge itself at John Jay High. She requested to use her old ID to communicate distinction, as refusing to participate in the program opposed to giving the appearance of blending in with other children compliant with the program.
BTC - WIRED.com's mods may not publish my comments. My efforts to inform to Dave Kravets concerning a $300 million education disbursement went directly to the Internet ethers, unrecognized.
That's okay. That's why when Brooking's doesn't like what I have to say, I can publish here. BeatTheChip is a pretty reliable public interest source on identity surveillance measures anyway.
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Here is what went muzzled:
"John Jay is simply embarassed. They underestimated the endurance run Texans will go opposed to invasive state-sponsored tracking devices. Everyone does. It appears they rescinded an offer to allow Hernandez to wear the badge without the RFID chip over a week ago during court proceedings. The day the news broke a $300 million disbursement for education came from the Texas Land Commission. John Jay and the NISD without a doubt would qualify for that funding for more immediate concerns or could even negotiate on funding ... {to} reconsider their badge program and perhaps soften the landing for any fiscal losses in adopting the program and hiring lawyers to fight this case. It won't change the fact that there are 2 bills in the Texas legislature now to cut off possible funding for adopting RFID in the future. At the end of the day the NISD was duped. They overinvested in a system without calculating public support or privacy risk mitigation ahead of time. That means a business loss to the school as an investor. They're now sacrificing Hernandez to ego and attempting to make her lose her education. Whomever is in charge is losing the forest for the trees. There is an election coming up. We know there will be a challenger to give that chair [to someone] who might make Texas education better by well thought out choices with the public's funding vs. costly public embarassments."
John Jay High is fighting to *not* educate a Christian child in Texas. The NISD's case with the public hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of making it if they don't get a course correction matching the public's real interests.
Good luck. Texas Senator Estes joined the effort, filing a bill to ban RFID in schools, aligning legislation with Rep. Kolkhorst's House bills, according to the Weatherford Democrat yesterday.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Redux Intl. Edition: China's real name Internet mandate
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| NSTIC: Oh.. it's an ID card for everything online |
A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?
c/o Bloomberg
"When China passed a new law two weeks ago requiring people to give their real names when signing up for Internet and phone service, it raised alarms over the surveillance implications for the world’s largest population of Web users. It also highlighted what may be an uncomfortable reality for U.S. netizens: a national digital ID, which essentially is what China is proposing, isn’t entirely a foreign concept. The U.S. is also slowly moving to a system where online personas are inextricably linked to real-world identities, an idea with huge privacy and security implications.
The tactics and enforcement mechanisms being explored in China and the U.S. are worlds apart, but the central idea is similar: knowing someone’s real name improves accountability online. That’s a double-edged sword, though, depending on who’s doing the accounting.
The White House’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC, is leading the government’s efforts in this area.":::MORE HERE:::
Biggest prob w/ use/overuse of biometric ID = once it's compromised, your identity is forever at risk. No way to replace #biometricchat A3RELATED:
— Amie Stepanovich (@astepanovich) January 10, 2013
- Declare Your Independence podcast covers Biometric Internet Access
- NATO’s global axis is where RFID, biometrics and NSTIC meet
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Friday, January 11, 2013
IdleNoMore video alert discloses Canada's EDL encryption lapse
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| Jan 11th logo for Intl. Day of Action #J11 "Have you seen my mom? Her face looks like yours." |
While this matter is about very serious massive civil disruption in social contracts set between indigenous tribes and the Canadian government, the generational impacts, the rifts and new growth in the native rights movement, the Anons took a hairpin turn. They dotted this matter with news about slipshod encryption of RFID tags in Canada's Enhanced Drivers Licenses. It warned all Canadians carrying the EDL on the move from Quebec and British Columbia. [News byte starts at 2:12]
RELATED NEWS: MONTREAL SIMON : Idle No More and the Great Day of Protest
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The 5-11 Campaign endorses Texas bills to ban RFID in schools
5-11 CAMPAIGN ADVISORY
Recent legal action to prevent the expulsion of Andrea Hernandez from NISD magnet school, John Jay High, was struck down in federal court today.
There are a variety of ways to demonstrate support for Texas bills to ban RFID in public schools.
Write or call Rep. Lois Kolkhorst’s office to document support for HB 101, HB 102. http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=13
Call/ Write/Contact Texas Governor Rick Perry to support for Rep. Kolkhorst’s bills, HB 101 and HB 102. http://governor.state.tx.us/contact/
Continue to thank and support The Rutherford Institute’s legal defense team assisting the Hernandez family in seeking decency and educational freedom. Subscribe to their news and action alerts. Ask them about ways to support Andrea today.
Stay connected with activists on the ground to support, inform, resist and to assist students contending with education privacy threats. Invasive tracking technologies like RFID were pushed on Andrea Hernandez without parental consent. Her parents got involved. Grouping together and searching for local opportunities to organize always helps increase people power in communities. Why just stay home, if you want to be part of the solution?
Stay up to date and spread the word. Tell media, citizen media, social networks and those close about the dangers of RFID and of Andrea Hernandez' struggle to retain her rights against digital surveillance.
Recent legal action to prevent the expulsion of Andrea Hernandez from NISD magnet school, John Jay High, was struck down in federal court today.
“The federal ruling really galvanizes an urgency to further support for [Texas State] legislations [HB 101, HB 102]. Texas students can be served by the rule of law if we push for laws that land on their side. Students should have an option to learn without suffering location and data surveillance by public school administrators. We thank The Rutherford Institute for their vigilance and legal support on this issue and will continue to support the efforts of Jerry Lynn Ward, the Hernandez’ attorney.”
- Sheila Dean, at The 5-11 Campaign.:::MORE ABOUT LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENT HERE:::
There are a variety of ways to demonstrate support for Texas bills to ban RFID in public schools.
Write or call Rep. Lois Kolkhorst’s office to document support for HB 101, HB 102. http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=13
Call/ Write/Contact Texas Governor Rick Perry to support for Rep. Kolkhorst’s bills, HB 101 and HB 102. http://governor.state.tx.us/contact/
Continue to thank and support The Rutherford Institute’s legal defense team assisting the Hernandez family in seeking decency and educational freedom. Subscribe to their news and action alerts. Ask them about ways to support Andrea today.
Stay connected with activists on the ground to support, inform, resist and to assist students contending with education privacy threats. Invasive tracking technologies like RFID were pushed on Andrea Hernandez without parental consent. Her parents got involved. Grouping together and searching for local opportunities to organize always helps increase people power in communities. Why just stay home, if you want to be part of the solution?
Stay up to date and spread the word. Tell media, citizen media, social networks and those close about the dangers of RFID and of Andrea Hernandez' struggle to retain her rights against digital surveillance.
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Monday, January 7, 2013
REDUX: NSTIC, Real ID, NCTC
BTC - Search Engine Watch's, Kristine Schachinger, is lighting up Twitterlogues with searing analysis of NSTIC's use and scope as public controls. Most of the contest boils down to unpacking the White House program's "myth"tique.
DIY Government: There are 2 NSTIC public input advantages.
You can:
Here is second life for news that matters:
REAL ID
New Mexico Op-Ed "Real ID Act step down slippery slope"
IOWA TO ADOPT REAL ID ACT - Video
"Measure written in part to stop foreign terrorists, but 25 states have rejected it so far"
Legislators ask to fortify NH privacy laws
W.Va. in small crowd in compliance with Real ID (Surprise AP coverage!)
Your Say: 'Real ID' useless to curb terrorist threat - USA Today
Hamilton County (TN) to take part in REAL ID pilot program
NCTC - The NSA's newest database darling sitting out in Utah collecting...everyone.
Julia Angwin, for WSJ's What They Know, unpacks the NCTC for NPR listeners. She cites more direct research here.
EmptyWheel.Net on Brennan's appointment to the CIA
@lpeterman the entire concept of an Id system online is flawed and brought to fruition by those interested in control not securityAnd
— Kristine Schachinger (@schachin) January 4, 2013
@lpeterman imagine that convo?But you did get your social security check - I didn't - but your NSTIC account shows you did & it cannot lie
— Kristine Schachinger (@schachin) January 4, 2013
Read her reasons here:
The NSTIC: Myths, Misnomers, and What About SEO?
Google as Your Identity Provider: Where Are We Now?DIY Government: There are 2 NSTIC public input advantages.
You can:
Display dissent live in Phoenix, AZ Jan 11th at IDESG
OR Show up to a seemingly more neutral symposium where consent, privacy and scale gets discussed, Jan. 16th
Here is second life for news that matters:
REAL ID
New Mexico Op-Ed "Real ID Act step down slippery slope"
IOWA TO ADOPT REAL ID ACT - Video
"Measure written in part to stop foreign terrorists, but 25 states have rejected it so far"
Legislators ask to fortify NH privacy laws
W.Va. in small crowd in compliance with Real ID (Surprise AP coverage!)
Your Say: 'Real ID' useless to curb terrorist threat - USA Today
Hamilton County (TN) to take part in REAL ID pilot program
NCTC - The NSA's newest database darling sitting out in Utah collecting...everyone.
Julia Angwin, for WSJ's What They Know, unpacks the NCTC for NPR listeners. She cites more direct research here.
EmptyWheel.Net on Brennan's appointment to the CIA
"I’m actually far more worried about Brennan’s control over other programs, particularly profiling Americans (though NCTC owns much of that task now). Remember, in addition to having ties to torture, Brennan was in charge of profiling for Dick Cheney’s illegal wiretap program. And he’s the guy who decided it’d be great to give the NCTC unfettered access to any federal database. This man loves data mining, and we should expect to see more of it from the CIA."India decides against their NCTC after all.
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The US will understand that imitation is not always flattering. |
A late game for RFID advisories in 2012
Recapping RFID current events in 2012
BTC - It has been a long year filled with ceaseless surveillance onslaughts driven by NATO, the security industrial complex and the US government. RFID, a controversial radio frequency microchip known for its broadcast surveillance ability, had fallen unnoticed by major media in recent years. 2012 saw a resurgence of RFID in the public sphere of influence and corresponding opposition flowered later in the year.
BTC - It has been a long year filled with ceaseless surveillance onslaughts driven by NATO, the security industrial complex and the US government. RFID, a controversial radio frequency microchip known for its broadcast surveillance ability, had fallen unnoticed by major media in recent years. 2012 saw a resurgence of RFID in the public sphere of influence and corresponding opposition flowered later in the year.
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