Broadly this concludes that while there is no conclusive evidence for electrical sensitivity, it leaves open the possibility that it does exist.
I believe it's fairly well established experimentally that cell chemistry is affected by radio spectrum EMF, but the argument appears to be that this effect does not scale up in large organisms.
There's a worrying trend for sites to ask for personal information such as date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc, for later use in authenticating you. One account I have asks for all of the above. This makes it very easy for any hacker / criminally inclined employee to steal your identity if the info is compromised.
Nowadays, I give each site different info about me and (sigh) record what I've given in a database alongside the password. If you ever have cause to authenticate yourself over the phone, have your database open and ready. Otherwise the delay in 'remembering' your date of birth might raise suspicions!
How do you folks get info from your password database into the authentication form? Is cut-and-paste considered risky?
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Here's a link to a recent (Oct 2005)UK Govt report entitled "Definition, Epidemiology and Management of Electrical Sensitivity"
r pd_reports/2005/hpa_rpd_010.pdf
http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/publications/hpa_
Broadly this concludes that while there is no conclusive evidence for electrical sensitivity, it leaves open the possibility that it does exist.
I believe it's fairly well established experimentally that cell chemistry is affected by radio spectrum EMF, but the argument appears to be that this effect does not scale up in large organisms.
There's a worrying trend for sites to ask for personal information such as date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc, for later use in authenticating you. One account I have asks for all of the above. This makes it very easy for any hacker / criminally inclined employee to steal your identity if the info is compromised.
Nowadays, I give each site different info about me and (sigh) record what I've given in a database alongside the password. If you ever have cause to authenticate yourself over the phone, have your database open and ready. Otherwise the delay in 'remembering' your date of birth might raise suspicions!
How do you folks get info from your password database into the authentication form? Is cut-and-paste considered risky?