for a division of the national institutes of standards and technology. mr. grant, that s quite a mouthful, but what is nistic as it s known? guest: i should say every program in washington seems to get one. we ve got one of the catchier ones. the national strategy for trust and identities in cyber stays is an initiative launched by president obama in springtime of 2011 that s focused to looking to raise the levels of trust online by driving improvements in security and privacy for all of us. the first is the passwords are fundamentally broken both from a security and usability perspective. on the security side, we know from studies that a whopping 76 president of network intrusions 76% of network intrusions last year were exploited, and use about side managing 25 or 30 different passwords, you re told to make each of them 12 characters, increasingly complex. it s, unfortunately, the perfect combination of bad security and bad use about. beyond the password side of thing,
[inaudible] .. the passwords and on the useability side you are probably dealing with 25-30 passwords and each are 12 characters and it is the perfect combination of bad security and usability. bebehind the password of thing, they are looking to give more options to prove who you are online. there are times crow you have want to be anonymous but downloading health records or mortgage papers you would want security so they are not online because there is no way to make sure you are peter and not someone inpersonating you. and the third thing is thing is you want to enhance this through what is out there and know the data provided is only what is needed. host: what is the budget? guest: the whitehouse requ t requested 24.5 million and the hill has given us 16.5 of that. we spent the bulk on pilot programs testing out ideas and technologies to take the ideas in strategy and test them on the marketplace. but some of it goes to research and supporting other efforts as well.
let me just add one clarifying d before we take the first volunteer on these questions. and, again, framing the discussion today, as you re aware, we ve got an active secretary, assistant secretary. we ve got a former comptroller, and we have other people who are brainstorming. and so you re hearing different ideas in different veins, and i just want to underscore that point. i think that was something that alice was driving at earlier, and i ll make start with her if you wish to begin with either of those questions. well, let me certainly, one of the problems is there s political opposition to anything that looks like a benefit reduction to anyone, and that applies to military, to military retirees, to medicare beneficiaries, and it s one of the reasons i think for looking at these changes across the whole system at the same time. and it s certainly possible that medicare, which is at the moment having some success in holding down costs as is the military health system
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burning in california right now. we will have complete coverage at 11:00. tonight, an east bay family is mourning the loss of a loved one. richard perez was shot and killed by police officer. it happened just after midnight on uncle sam s liquor store. flowers sit outside uncle sam s liquor where 24-year-old perez, known as pety, was shot and killed by a police officer. i saw someone on the ground. this happened just after midnight. one woman who didn t want her face on camera was one perez moments after the incident. she said he was not armed. he didn t hurt nobody. he might have been drunk but there is no reason for that police officer to have a gun pulled on the boy. the police stepped by the store to do a routine check. perez was intoxicated. a dpia fight went foreign at least a minute. the police officer felt perez grab on to his gun. his family describes him as loving, hard-working and are left with many questions. why couldn t they use a taser or someth