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Re: Choicepoint [was: Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Thu Feb 17 12:58:39 2005

From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050215.121557.16941.54647@webmail29.lax.untd.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:58:05 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Update:

ChoicePoint's problem could affect up to 400,000 now.

Identity Theft Bigger Than First Thought:
http://www.wgst.com/cc-common/local_news_common.html?
ID=20050217034315&feed=local

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:15 +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> 
> Yes, this _is_ much worse.  :-/
> 
> Thinking out loud here, but one's imagination runs
> wild at the prospect of how much it will take before
> more credence is given to a serious top-to-bottom security
> infrastructure revamp.
> 
> And holding these firms $responsible_ ...
> 
> $.02,
> 
> - ferg
> 
> -- Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> 
> It gets worse:
> 
> 	Database giant gives access to fake firms
> 	http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/
> 
> ---Rsk
> 
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg@netzero.net or
>  fergdawg@sbcglobal.net


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