Identity and authentication are distinct components of the steps necessary to use a secure computer system. Identity without authentication lacks proof; authentication without identity invalidates auditing and eliminates multi-user capability (consider Windows 95/98, which supported a password as an authenticator but no user ID).
Eighty-Second Attorney General, 2009-2015 Eric H. Holder, Jr., was born on January 21, 1951, in the Bronx, New York. He attended public schools, graduating from Stuyvesant High School, where he earned a Regents Scholarship.
Atty. General Eric Holder's long overdue realization that too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason was an important step toward a national recognition that our decades long war on drugs has been ineffective, expensive, and cruel.