Comments on: Puerto Rico: Biggest Identity Theft ever?

By: Sniper

Sniper — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:26:48 +0000

why bother with identity theft when US servers like that of NASA.gov are so vulnerable to the most ordinary exploits? details are all (full disclosure) listed in pinoysecurity

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:06 +0000

I would argue it to be identity theft, which is surprising in light of your framing.

The theft is the imposition of friction into transactions that are based on identity databases. You are no longer who you were, and you have to go deal with that.

The statement “our identity is not our birth certificate” is true, but that doesn’t mean that “your birth certificate is not part of your identity” is untrue.

By: Dissent

Dissent — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:16:10 +0000

Hmmmm…. I wouldn’t call it “identity theft” as much as “identity revocation” or “identity do-over.”

Suppose our government, in its infinite wisdom, decided to do away with all current SSN and go to a different identifier that they would presumably secure better than SSN – and that everyone who currently has a number has to re-apply to get a new number. Would you say that there were over 300 million cases of ID theft?

The “victim” hasn’t really lost control of their identity, as our identity is not our birth certificate. The “victim” has temporarily lost the ability to authenticate their identity, right?

But yeah, the legislation seems another case of good intentions, poor execution.

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