My concern is the phrase "secure communication with the government". The MX record clearly shows it points to the data center in the US. From national security standpoint, this is very so insecure.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah < rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote: > yes, i believe the article has highlighted a very important opportunity > moving forward - the implementation of cyber id authentication for malaysia. > > imagine the potential - register once and use the id to access all the > participating govt agencies (no need to register). > > example : dbkl / tnb / ptptn send me my bill / statement through the email. > in the statement there is a button Bayar, and when i click on it, my browser > displays the login page for the agency, i login with myemail.my id and > password, then can pay for the bill. > > that will save me and the agencies a whole lot of hassle just to maintain > usernames / accounts / passwords for the hundreds of agencies. now we will > have a platform to implement 'single sign-on' > > we had myeg, rileks which acted as single portal to govt agencies - but > this worked on a centralised portal concept. with a single sign-on, we can > have a distributed concept. > > so now the opportunity are for > > 1. web developers among us, to figure out how to make our portals / web > apps to work with this myemail id. > 2. os developers among us, to figure out how to make windows live id to > work on non-windows client machines > > see example for drupal : http://drupal.org/project/winliveid > > this single sign-on would be great for one of my past clients, where we had > to request guests to register, then someone in the agency to check that the > information is valid before approving the registration, then we also had to > have features like recalling lost password / etc. > > with myemail.my, we could just ask them to logon using their current id, > and we could have that automatically authenticated. no need to re-register > and try to remember the password for so many websites. > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
