Re:Three Years in Identity Theft Hell
by Vespasian on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:18PM
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You make some valid points here. I'm "excited" to see the influence of real-time machine learning.
For now, it remains somewhat secure in practice and will hopefully bye augmented by use of cryptography already available in many IDs (though, as other comments note, not widely used in some countries)
Re:Three Years in Identity Theft Hell
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:49AM
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As for the cryptography available in many IDs: Those usually are a terrible idea, because it's a black box that decides who has rights and who has not. How would a court investigate the reliability of some smart card? Or does that effectively transform courts into institutions that sign orders from whoever actually controls the smart cards? If the card says you signed a contract, you signed it?
Also, please don't use terms like "steal an identity", that is how banks frame things in order to make it appear that they are not responsible. Banks don't employ reliable authentication, thus they get defrauded by imposters--nothing is ever stolen from those who the importers pretend to be, it's only between the bank and the imposter, noone else is a party to that fraudulent transaction.