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Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec's Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone's 'full identity' is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it? There's also an executive summary (PDF, 36 pages)."
Of course this article is wrong. Just look at how much all these politicians care about us.
So when the British government introduce their fantastic, shiney, new, biometric, uhackable ID card system, can we get them to buy our ID off us?
Is crushing a suspect's child's testicles illegal?
John Yoo: "No, [if] the President thinks he needs to do that."
a bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it?
How much do you assume the average person has in their bank accounts? I realize that living at home with your parents and not having to pay for rent, utilities, food, and clothes may allow you to skate by with a very low monthly balance, but the vast majority of people who work for a living have to have the cash on hand (in their checking account, anyway) to pay for all these necessities.
But I don't suppose someone whose name is "I don't believe in imaginary property" would have a very solid grasp of the real world.
Yes. You said what I wanted - why should I trust the people who gave us Norton with my internet safety?
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Hey... waidaminute... that wasn't me!
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1. Open lots of bank accounts
2. Sell them
3. Profit
(It'd be funnier if it didn't sound so plausible)
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15
(checks bank balance...)
Yeah, that's about right...*sigh*...
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~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to
thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of about 15 bucks.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Opera?
how do you find sellers? I want to sell my bank account info fro $1000.