At 9:24 AM -0400 10/25/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Likely means new criminal laws... (today)
SOCIAL ISSUES Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General Identity Theft Prevention Workshop. Panels will discuss victims'views on prevention, Internet issues, workplace ID theft, private industry issues and legislative approaches to preventing ID theft
Recall that it was agents of the U.S. Government who made _my_ Social Security Number, and other pertinent information, a matter of an open court record. BTW, something that's incredibly bad about modern online security is the increasing number of financial companies and agencies that now require "the last four digits of your social number" as an enabling key. When I speak to a phonedroid about the absurdity and danger of this, they act confused. Declan is right about the above meaning new laws are coming. New laws meaning more control. Government won't be affected...it rarely is affected by its own legislation. There are many ways to lessen the dangers of "identity theft." Government could start by sticking to the original words on _my_ SS card: "For tax and social security purposes only -- not to be used for identification." (Or words very similar to this. Somewhere I still have my original SS card, issued in 1969, and this is what it says. I have heard that this phrasing was dropped in later years, opening the door for the SS number to be used for student I.D. numbers, military I.D. numbers, financial record passwords, and all the rest.) Fucking hypocrites. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.