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on Wednesday March 19 2014, @03:53PM
from the sensative-and-I'd-like-to-stay-that-way dept.
from the sensative-and-I'd-like-to-stay-that-way dept.
sl4shd0rk writes:
"Although not as ubiquitous a name in digital security as Bruce Schneier, Brian Krebs has dealt (first hand in some instances) with much of the same related criminal activity. Krebs has some good tips worth reading for anyone interested in mitigating identity theft. If the infamous Target breach, and others like it, are any indication of how your sensitive customer info is 'secured' by retailers, it may be only a matter of time before your information is compromised."
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Tips from Brian Krebs - When Your ID Gets Pwned
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 19 2014, @04:48PM
I think that a problem which encompasses more than just credit reporting is the modern idea that we are single individuals. It's the kind of idea that seems intuitively obvious on the surface, but the reality is a lot more complicated.
Just one out of countless examples: Who you are to your parents is not who you are to your spouse and that is not who you are to your kids. There are aspects shared across all the identities, but the important parts are the differences - like the doting father who ignores his wife believing she is a nag.
Similary, your mortgage is only peripheral to your credit cards and even less connected to your account with the local electric utility. Sure, data-mining can identify correlations in aggregate data but those correlations are only weakly accurate for any specific individual.
I'm not here to preach alternatives, maybe there shouldn't even be alternatives and we ought to just pull back on trying to minimize every single bit of risk out of the system because at some point all it really does is move it somewhere that isn't so measured - like all the unexpected costs to individuals who have had their "single identity" hijacked.
(Also the same thing goes for social-media accounts which try to tie all of your social identities into one [theverge.com] for their convenience.)