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- i-Cards: the next SSN?
- i-Cards: the next SSN?NO WAYI would never consider giving up the last bit of control that I have over my identy, to link a privite enterprise with a goverment agency or function is so scary it makes me shudder.Dream onIt's hardly worth comment, the concept is so ridiculous.Corporatise your ID...
- Tags: i-Card, SSN
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosksNot just at YYZI know those kiosks at Toronto Airport, having just used one. I don't think someone added a skimmer externally. They have trained staff helping passengers, and who would spot anything amiss. Also, airports have CCTVs, so the...
- Tags: airport kiosk, skimmer, airport security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Government supplies SSNs to identity thefts
- Government supplies SSNs to identity theftsThe problem isthat the SSN was never intended to serve any kind of identification role whatsoever. But as the nannystate grew, the government began to require it on more and more pieces of paper until it has become a de facto national ID card.RE: Government...
- Tags: SSN, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbers
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbersDe-link the SSNThis is an action for which I have been advocating for some time now: Find some ways to de-link the SSN from personal information so that such data breaches have little effect. Short of total systems encryption, this is about the...
- Tags: Banking, Government, Operational accounting, Social Security, NP Problem, social security number, agency, SSN, OMB
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Digital IDs face opposition among states
- Digital IDs face opposition among statesWon't stop terrorist any more the DL doesUseless argument.There is nothing wrong with an ID card. It has other uses that are perfectly valid. Can one justify the cost though, that's the real question.Terrorists are just anyone with cause and will use terror to get...
- Tags: Digital signatures, Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, card, SSN, digital signature, VeriSign Digital ID, REAL ID
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Pretexting hearing turns to wireless execs
- Pretexting hearing turns to wireless execsSocial EngineeringOnce upon a time I worked for "The Phone Company." We constantly fielded calls from prisoners who could call our exchange "toll free" and ask us to enter codes which would allow them to enter long-distance exchanges. Also, people would call claiming...
- Tags: Social Security, Identity theft, Operational accounting, pretexting, wireless, SSN, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-29
- U.S. urged to keep lid on Social Security numbers
- U.S. urged to keep lid on Social Security numbersWe must publish all our SSN on the open web- then we will be safe from this type of fraudROFL - ever fathom why we get credit reports for 'free'?Everything's housed in India -- and as such they don't need to give...
- Tags: Litigation, Operational accounting, SOC Numbers, SSN, fraud, social security number, lid, Social Security, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- Laptops are not the problem.
- Laptops are not the problem.What you are sayingIf a business asks for you SSN number don't give it.When they insist they have to have it stop doing business with them.How about Ten Commandments for PII security?Who knows, they could very well become laws that institutions must observe or face severe...
- Tags: Notebooks, SSN, PII, Commandments, laptop computer, credit account, agency
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- Vets groups sue over data breach
- Vets groups sue over data breachI Don't Beleive Something Of This Sencitivity Could Just Be Taken HomeAnyone Thinking Information Of This Widespread Nature Including Veterans Back To 1975'And Up To Presently Serving Troops,From So Many Classes,Grades,Branches And Active As Well As Reserve And Discharged Veterans Don't Exist Anywhere,In These Combinations,Without...
- Tags: Databases, SSN
- Discussion threads 2006-06-07
- Pentagon conference attendees' data compromised
- Pentagon conference attendees' data compromisedNeed secure IDAnybody notice that we could use some form of secure identification? Nothing I've seen out there in use today comes even close to being secure.Social Security number as identification is a joke. You practically have to give your SSN to Wal-Mart to do...
- Tags: Social Security, Backups, Operational accounting, SSN, Pentagon
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Workflow makes you smarter
- Yesterday, I wrote a short piece on my blog about a co-worker's experience getting on a White House tour. Essentially, his Senator's office wanted him to email his Social Security Number to them for the background check and they admitted that they were going to email...
- Tags: congressional office, SSN
- Blog posts 2006-04-12
- ID cards to be mandatory in U.K. by 2010
- ID cards to be mandatory in U.K. by 2010I don't see how this will fly in the USHow are they going to coerce everyone to get biometrically scanned and fingerprinted? That would be SUCH a 4th Amendment violation it'd be sick.Nothing like handing over your DNA to the American terrorists...
- Tags: ID card, SSN, card
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
- Universities grapple with ID theft
- Universities grapple with ID theftIf they really wanted to put a dent in this problem......they'd quit using Social Security numbers as identifiers for students. The article makes an excellent point that they need to stop the practice of posting grades by SSN. I remember this from my college days. Teachers...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Social Security, Operational accounting, SSN, SS#, identity theft, job
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
- Kiss your old SSN goodbye
- Kiss your old SSN goodbyeDoes it occure to anyone else...that just maybe we don't want to be tracked by corporations or *our* government???Then Whats the Point of the National ID Card?So they want to get rid of SSNs and they want to have a national ID card. Somethings not...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, SSN History, SSN, password
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
- LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people feared stolen
- LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people feared stolenThe one comment says it allThe Lexis-Nexis company spokesperson said:"Reed Elsevier moved to soothe investors' fears by reaffirming its earnings forecasts, saying the financial implications of the breach were expected to be manageable within the context of LexisNexis' overall growth."That tells you EXACTLY how...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Financial services, LexisNexis, SSN
- Discussion threads 2005-04-12
- Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk
- Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at riskWhy, in the name of all that is holy or not......do morons store data like this locally? On a PORTABLE device?Gross IncompetenceValuable data should be stored on a server - NOT on a client machine. Servers are locked up and restricted access -...
- Tags: Notebooks, server, Laptop Theft, SSN, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
- The law of unintended consequences
- The law of unintended consequencesEverone overlooks the real point.Why let this date be data based or shared at all with the persons OK.That should read "without the person's OK"That should read "without the person's OK"SSNIt's amazing how many companies allow Social Security Numbers to leave their email systems unencrypted.Am...
- Tags: Social Security, Everone, SSN, e-mail address, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2005-03-14
- From high-tech driver's licenses to national ID cards?
- From high-tech driver's licenses to national ID cards?Hi YaA federal law takes precedence over a state law. Problem with this,is that its adjucency,would tend to create smaller,and smaller representative government,and keep a larger 'executive branch,wich 'assumes a security conscousness,that for a constitution wich is NOT a federal document,is a section...
- Tags: Government, national ID card, SSN, ID card, security, RFID, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-02-14
- Hidden lessons in 1.4 million record SSN hack
- Just because your Social Security Number might not be one of the 1.4 million SSNs that were put at risk when an unknown intruder slipped through a security hole in a social researcher's unsecured computer at UC Berkeley doesn't mean the break-in is something you shouldn't be paying attention to. As...
- Tags: negligence, SSN
- Blog posts 2004-10-21
- Season over for 'phishing'?
- Season over for 'phishing'?2 years "inconvenience" for ruining someones finances..sometimes for LIFE!Why do white collar criminals and their defendors whine so much when they may have to pay up (look at Ken Lay!)?It should AGAIN be illegal to use/require Social Security numbers for identification for non-tax purposes.minimum penalties for ID...
- Tags: Social Security, Cyberthreats, identity theft, Shari`a, phishing, SSN
- Discussion threads 2004-07-15
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