Kaspersky wants to introduce hardware ID for everyone

[Renk]

Kaspersky co-founder Eugene Kaspersky recommends a government sponsored ID scheme for computer users

Eugene Kaspersky is advocating the use of hardware confirmation, known better as 'hardware IDs', for Internet banking, saying that some Baltic countries and some British banks already have them in use today.

"They need to have these hardware IDs for everyone," Kaspersky says, calling for mass adoption of peripheral card readers for all internet banking users. The idea sounds simple, but the setup could be costly for banks.

Kaspersky envisions a world where many of us, whether we like it or not will use ID card readers as a type of digital passport. The idea behind these devices is that physical counter-measures are much harder for a cyber criminal to infiltrate. "Banks could be big drivers of this kind of hardware", says Kaspersky. In Australia, hardware tokens have been introduced in the past by some banks as a security measure.

Eugene Kaspersky: introduce ID system for all Internet users - News - PC Authority

[Owyn]

Intel had such IDs in Pentium3 but later they removed IDs )=

[tokiodrift1]

That could try want they want, but in the end it will be always the same...

[anon]

Intel had such IDs in Pentium3

And someone made a program to disable them:
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