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.
Born Matthew Todd Lauer on December 30, 1957 in New York City. In 1974, Lauer left New York to attend Ohio University. He quit in 1979, just four credits shy of graduation, to pursue a journalism internship at WOWK-TV in West Virginia. The risk paid off when he landed a news producing spot.