If you live in California, you can put a security freeze on your credit record. That means that nobody but you (or the usual government agencies, I suppose) can request a credit report unless you unfreeze it. Although this doesn't prevent someone from using your identity, it does make it harder for them to get credit or open accounts, since most banks or other entities will want to check your credit report first.
AFAIK, California is the only state that has security freezes. Needless to say, it's not something that the credit agencies have been exactly jumping for joy about, since they are in the business of selling reports.
In all states, you can request (and pay for) a security alert, which means you are notified when somebody pulls a credit report.
For one thing, perhaps they are so happy with the recent court decisions in SearchKing's home jurisdiction, that they don't feel the need for a change. The Law Meme analysis shows that Google had some excellent precendents in Oklahoma to rely on.
The inspiration for Ziggy Stardust came at least in part from a fellow Mercury recording artist, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, according to this article
I am behind a Linksys firewall too, and all I had to do was reboot it, and then reboot my PC. Then I had to run the "configurator". All is ok except for some DNS flakiness, oh, and their web server is overwhelmed. I figure those will be shaken out soon enough.
The AT&T business tactics in this @Home situation have been one thing, but their technical people have pulled off something remarkable in getting so many users switched over so fast. I've never seen such a big network change happen so fast with so few problems. I thought it would be much more pain and time than this. I really have to hand it to them -- Great Job!
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If you live in California, you can put a security freeze on your credit record. That means that nobody but you (or the usual government agencies, I suppose) can request a credit report unless you unfreeze it. Although this doesn't prevent someone from using your identity, it does make it harder for them to get credit or open accounts, since most banks or other entities will want to check your credit report first.
AFAIK, California is the only state that has security freezes. Needless to say, it's not something that the credit agencies have been exactly jumping for joy about, since they are in the business of selling reports.
In all states, you can request (and pay for) a security alert, which means you are notified when somebody pulls a credit report.
For one thing, perhaps they are so happy with the recent court decisions in SearchKing's home jurisdiction, that they don't feel the need for a change. The Law Meme analysis shows that Google had some excellent precendents in Oklahoma to rely on.
The inspiration for Ziggy Stardust came at least in part from a fellow Mercury recording artist, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, according to this article
Oh, didn't you know? They have divining rods for the electrically sensitive. They must have some on EBay.
I am behind a Linksys firewall too, and all I had to do was reboot it, and then reboot my PC. Then I had to run the "configurator". All is ok except for some DNS flakiness, oh, and their web server is overwhelmed. I figure those will be shaken out soon enough.
The AT&T business tactics in this @Home situation have been one thing, but their technical people have pulled off something remarkable in getting so many users switched over so fast. I've never seen such a big network change happen so fast with so few problems. I thought it would be much more pain and time than this. I really have to hand it to them -- Great Job!