Secure Online-Identity

 Yesterday,   after a long time, I decided to see how's going on my stock account. Unfortunately , I forgot my password of my online account.  The reason is that I got so many passwords that sometimes I can’t remember them. I had tried to log in again and again until the stock system locked me for wrong passwords.  I had to call my home agent back in China for help. Anyway, I didn't surffer a big lose since the stock market in China hasn’t change rapidly for a long time. Nonetheless, I also read a news says president Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious proposal to create a trusted-identity system to boost consumer security in cyberspace. These two things again remind me the term of online privacy.  I myself was a victim of some form of identity theft in the past years, but I didn’t surprise at all as long as I haven’t lost very important information like bank account because I know this is the normal risk one should face when he or she using Internet. As a matter of fact, it already becomes a very big big privacy concern when people using Internet nowadays. I believe most people, like me, sometimes want to make sure you and the only you can access sensitive information. You might have a lot of passwords, too many to remember them all, or maybe you use the same password many times. The proposal made by Obama argues in either way, ID thieves can get or steal your password and pretend to be you.  Now there is a group of private and public organizations think there is a better way. They are building an identity equal system, where consumers and businesses can more confidently conduct transactions on line. If you decide to participate, you need to pick one or more private or public secure ID providers to prove your identity.  That company or publicity issue your credential, it might be a secure ID application on your iPhone, a smart card, or other devices. Your credential proves you and most online providers no loner need your personal information. You can use your trusted ID for sensitive transactions and not use for others like serving the web. Your ID provider will not know how you use your credential. There is no central database tracking your actions. In the new cyber world, with trusted IDs, online transactions are safer and more convenient.  In this way, one could control the access to personal information. Nevertheless, I don’t know if this proposal will help to solve the hard problem in America, but the ideas sounds good for me.