>I suppose that someone could seek out my house and try to attack my wife >or daughter as Chris selected, but I wonder why that person would decide >that my wife and daughter were better targets than the ones living in any >other house selected at random. What in my sig line even suggests that I >have a wife and daughter, much less say something about their >attractiveness?
I freely admit that my example was an extreme case. The idea was to point out the worst and "scare" people straight. BUT... it happens... it happens enough, that I can actually think of 3 cases in as many months of "cyber-stalking" that were reported on the news. And those are just the ones the news felt were worth reporting. >When my identity gets stolen next week, I'll get back to you :-) You laugh, but it was done to me. I had someone take out a credit card with my name/address/SSN. Fortunatly, the guy was an amature, so I caught it before he could charge anything. I cring when I think about how he could have screwed my ability to buy my house had he been successful and run up the $10,000 credit card that had been issued (which BTW... I signed the paperwork on my house today... so I'm finally leaving this sh*t hole rental place!!!) I'm now VERY vigilant with watching credit card statements, and I question everything (well, I've always questioned everything... "Why?" is sort of my motto). These are all risks we live every day. You can't stop someone from stealing your ID, all you can do is make yourself less attractive of a target then the next guy. Its kind of like putting the Club on your car. It won't stop someone that wants to steal your car... but it will make it harder to steal your car then the one parked next to you. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
