http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/credit-bureaus-and-outsourcing.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/credit-bureaus-and-outsourcing.html/comment-page-1#comment-4618 Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux Fri, 09 May 2008 12:34:00 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=2754#comment-4618 It's not like credit bureau and other informations brokers apply much controls to their data anyway. A few years back (2004) I got a 200 pages word file and an SSL certificate from Choice Point and that was all that was required to query any information they have on anyone with no further restrictions. Given 9 digits I could get all the info on a random american and it took less then a week to get the certificate and RPC specs and a few hours to write a perl script to query. It’s not like credit bureau and other informations brokers apply much controls to their data anyway. A few years back (2004) I got a 200 pages word file and an SSL certificate from Choice Point and that was all that was required to query any information they have on anyone with no further restrictions. Given 9 digits I could get all the info on a random american and it took less then a week to get the certificate and RPC specs and a few hours to write a perl script to query.

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