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Cringely on Identity Theft

Posted by michael on from the who-ordered-all-this-porn dept.

Boiled Frog writes "Prompted by the theft of his mail, Cringely investigates how easy it is to steal identities from government publications. In this article he explains how he got the identities of 300,000 people which he calculates to be valued at $65 billion dollars. If Cringely can do it, anyone can."

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  1. Identity theft is indeed a big problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    In fact, someone has stolen my account. I'm not really an AC...

    Watch out - this could happen to you.

  2. Office of Redundancy Office by jratcliffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...valued at $65 billion dollars"

    Come on editors, I know it's early on the West Coast, but really.

  3. How I Deal With Identity Theft by jbottero · · Score: 5, Funny

    My solution to discurage anyone from stealing my identity has been to default on all my student loans, consistently pay my credit cards a few month late, and write anti-government propeganda letters to the local paper (amazingly, I still have my DoD security clearence!). The scammers run screaming...