We had another close call ~ sockpuppet posing as phoenix (again). Be aware .. some people .. the lights are on, but nobody's home (if you get my drift) ... over the past few years, we have been attacked by internet posers/sockpuppets .. the "imitator(s)" are not very well balanced and their motives are hard to figure out. What we do know is that their intentions are not good. Be aware of "newbies" or anyone who tries to damage another persons reputation. We know of a few multiples and one in particular person who is female and poses as a man. That person caused quite a strain on our friendships by spreading rumors/lies. We understand that these people are mentally unstable and so ... we keep close tabs on those we know. When all is said and done .. that info. will be released to prevent others from being harmed. (kel) ...
Note: one year ago ... June 25, 2010 ~ National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Creating Options for Enhanced Online Security and Privacy
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf
Multiple Personalities On The Internet: Not With This Government Proposal
The Internet is different things to different people. For some, it gives the ability to express an alter-ego, to be something, or someone, that you could never be in real life and possibly wouldn’t want to be. For others, it is a vast playground of games, music and social inter action. For many, it is where we work.
And yet for still others, a necessary nuisance.
On the Internet we can be whomever we wish to be: an army of one; the greatest living legend in our own mind (and probably nobody else’s) and we can even be ourselves (how boring).
For self protection on the Internet it is sometimes necessary to adopt a different persona with another we’ve met on the Internet to make certain that the person we’re talking to is real. But if the person we’re talking to has done the same thing, then we really don’t know who we are talking to any more than that person knows who he or she is talking to.
There is nothing wrong with all of that, as long as our alternate identify is done for the right reasons, not compulsive-excessive and doesn’t harm anyone, including ourselves. One of the great appeals and attractions of the Internet, for many people, is the ability to acquire alternate Internet personalities for different reasons.
But the United States government has different ideas about your use of the Internet. The White House has recently proposed a national Internet Identity Authentication Plan. Its stated purpose is to allegedly improve online privacy and security.
But will it?
The recently unveiled
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) would have Net citizens “voluntarily” (at least for now) secure some kind of smart identity card from public and private providers where this “card” would be used for online authentication for banking; accessing electronic health records; sending email and making online purchases.
This “identity ecosystem” (as it is called) will supposedly make Internet users more confident about the security of their online habits and trusting the identity of each other.
Oh really now? What if I don’t want to reveal my real identity, say in emails?
Under this U.S. Government proposal, the plan would force you to have a single, centralized identity. All your information, everything personal about you, stored in a single database. And while we’re told that this plan is voluntary, for now, how much time needs to go by before the “nanny state” kicks in and requires all American citizens to participate in this “identification” process?
This proposal is far too Orwellian for the likes of us who prefer a bit more freedom of choice on the Internet. The thought of the government having possible access to the private data of millions, upon millions of Americans (above and beyond what they already have) is absolutely frightening.
Having a national Internet identification system, which would record your financial and economic activities, and possibly your email, while on the Internet and allowing the government to have access to such information is repulsive to any one who believes that the government serves the people, not the other way around.
