July 6, 2004

ZDNet AnchorDesk: How do I know who you really are?

Trusted identity management is one of the most important issues to be solved in the next few years. Can any system or institution be trusted? The basics of any system must include: for theft prevention, no human in the institution can access all identities; some kind of double authentication scheme is needed whenever changes are made by the person owning the identity; should credit bureaus, rather than banks be the trusted entities? Insurance companies?

This is a tough nut to crack. One thing for sure, no government should be the trusted entity.

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