User talk:Akawow

Wikipedia Article
I will be starting a Wikipedia article on 'National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).' This is an initiative being taken by the Obama Administration to create and internet ID for Americans. This initiative is being spun as being in the benefit of Americans because it would eliminate the need to remember dozens of passwords and 'enhancing online security and privacy' somehow. Obama is planning on giving the Commerce Department the authority to oversee the creation of the internet ID. Having the Commerce Department in charge, rather than the NSA, is meant to assuage the fears of those who cry foul at the dangerous implications it has for privacy and civil liberties.

The article will explore the motivation behind this move by the government and what implication it holds for privacy and civil liberties. The White House stressed that the internet ID would be assigned to individual strictly on a voluntary basis, but doesn't mention that once something like this launches, companies may make it a prerequisite to do business online, thereby forcing everyone to have one.

The sources for this article consist mainly of online news sources that first reported on this including CNET, the original draft proposal which can be found here, and a blog post by the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator and Special Assistant to the President, Howard A. Schmidt.

Since I proposed my idea during class when the facilitators asked what people were thinking of and Joni replied to it, I will just summarize that. I wanted to do an article on the internet ID, but none existed on Wikipedia and was wondering whether I should start another one. Joni said I should look to make sure it does not exist under a different name, and if it doesn't exist, I should create it.

Grade
Check plus (as opposed to inferior grades) because you completed each section. This is definitely a great idea, although I would encourage you to utilize online or campus ambassadors to structure the changes you're planning to implement now that you've established a similar article doesn't exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatBerger (talk • contribs) 08:25, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Check up
Well this is one of the more interesting check ups I have done. Amul, as you can see from below, Wikipedia will delete your entire page very soon if you don't get it up to snuff - thus rendering the work you've done so far for this final project meaningless. Now is the time for action. There is a plethora of articles about your subject; a googling of it yielded 40,000 results (at least 5 of which look promising). You can't just summarize an article you found online and make it a wikipedia page. Instead, tonight and for these last few weeks of the semester you need to find more information about the NSTIC, insert it into this page, organize it into different sections, and cite it correctly so that your page stays alive. A ton of resources are at your disposal; use them. PatBerger (talk) 23:30, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Black Magic (game) for deletion
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