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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by emodendroket on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:33PM (#37229474)
This is the magic of reconceptualizing fraud as "identity theft" in the first place.
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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by franga2000 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:50PM (#37229627)
There's a pretty funny sketch about that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by Vicinity9635 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:57PM (#37230156)
It was never more than marketing for "identity theft protection". When you put it like that, it starts to sound an awful lot like paying a protection racket doesn't it?
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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by emodendroket on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:44AM (#37232263)
That's ancillary; the biggest thing is offloading liability that would sensibly lie with the institution that lent money to a fictitious version of you.
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