Keep the U.N. Out of Our Beeswax

The U.N. is dreadfully worried that the Internet causes users to need to create user IDs and passwords, which they will inevitably re-use elsewhere. Their proposed solution is that we do reuse them, but that a better job be done coordinating this. (Great, so one gets hacked, they all get hacked).

The number of passwords and logins web users need makes it inevitable they will re-use phrases, warned the International Telecommunications Union.

Re-using these identifiers puts people at serious risk of falling victim to identity theft, said the ITU report.

It called on regulators and businesses to find better ways for people to identify themselves to websites.

Why am I suspicious of their motives? Hey, Kofi! Mind your own business!