Symantecs “Lifelog-Identität”
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Die ganzen kommerziellen und staatlichen Identitätsmanagementgeschichten für's Netz erfüllen mich immer mit tiefem Misstrauen, weil sie – wenn sie mit zwingenden und allgegenwärtigen Prozeduren versehen sind und auf einer Datenvorhaltung basieren, die der Kontrolle des Besitzers weitestgehend entzogen ist, Bausteine und Strukturen für ein umfassendes Profiling und nicht-anonymes Dasein im Netz darstellen können. Nur so viel: Da kommt etwas auf uns zu, das bisher nur im Ansatz und punktuell eingeschätzt wird und weitere Abwehrkämpfe nötig machen könnte.
Auch die Vorstellungen von Mark Bregman, dem neuen CTO von Symantec, mit denen er Symantec als kommenden "Identitätsbroker" anpreist, bis der Staat richtig in das Identitätsmanagement seiner Bürger einsteigt, zur "Lifelog-Identitätsbildung", die ihm vorschwebt, geben dem Misstrauen neue Nahrung:
Auch die Vorstellungen von Mark Bregman, dem neuen CTO von Symantec, mit denen er Symantec als kommenden "Identitätsbroker" anpreist, bis der Staat richtig in das Identitätsmanagement seiner Bürger einsteigt, zur "Lifelog-Identitätsbildung", die ihm vorschwebt, geben dem Misstrauen neue Nahrung:
Bregman: [We are becoming] a broker of identity so you can, as an individual, establish your identity with us through some set of processes. And having done so once, you can use those credentials elsewhere [in cyberspace], because we’re trusted by the third parties to establish your identity.
GCN: Would you seek government input?
Bregman: Clearly, at some point, the actual source of the identity will probably come from the government, but that will take some time.
In the meantime, there are mechanisms we could use that would be analogous to a credit rating. If I want to get a loan, the bank will go to Equifax to learn about my credit-worthiness. Equifax does not certify my credit-worthiness, it [offers] a collection of publicly available data that has been correlated to offer a picture.
The same thing is true for identity. Without having a government-issued identity, I can assert to somebody that this is my name. I could say I have an address and you can look it up. I have some records that say where I lived in the past. And if I weren’t Mark Bregman, maybe you wouldn’t know those addresses. You could ask what the last item was that I charged on my credit card. So you start to narrow in on confirming or establishing my identity.
Now [that approach] might even be better than a government-issued identification card. Even in the physical world, it is not that hard to get a fake ID. You show up with a birth certificate. What is a birth certificate? Well, it’s a piece of paper that says someone was born with that name, but it doesn’t have any DNA, fingerprints or anything. The person [applying for the ID] has to be the same sex and around same age, and that is pretty much it. We could build a history of someone’s life, and that might be better as a form of identity.
Aus dem GCN-Interview Mark Bregman | True identities.
GCN: Would you seek government input?
Bregman: Clearly, at some point, the actual source of the identity will probably come from the government, but that will take some time.
In the meantime, there are mechanisms we could use that would be analogous to a credit rating. If I want to get a loan, the bank will go to Equifax to learn about my credit-worthiness. Equifax does not certify my credit-worthiness, it [offers] a collection of publicly available data that has been correlated to offer a picture.
The same thing is true for identity. Without having a government-issued identity, I can assert to somebody that this is my name. I could say I have an address and you can look it up. I have some records that say where I lived in the past. And if I weren’t Mark Bregman, maybe you wouldn’t know those addresses. You could ask what the last item was that I charged on my credit card. So you start to narrow in on confirming or establishing my identity.
Now [that approach] might even be better than a government-issued identification card. Even in the physical world, it is not that hard to get a fake ID. You show up with a birth certificate. What is a birth certificate? Well, it’s a piece of paper that says someone was born with that name, but it doesn’t have any DNA, fingerprints or anything. The person [applying for the ID] has to be the same sex and around same age, and that is pretty much it. We could build a history of someone’s life, and that might be better as a form of identity.
von rabenhorst - Owl,
gepostet am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 um 17:48
