At 07:23 AM 7/5/2004, Anton Stiglic wrote:
Identity has many meanings. In a typical dictionary you will find several
definitions for the word identity. When we are talking about information
systems, we usually talk about a digital identity, which has other meanings
as well. If you are in the
However, in some scenarios
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#61
the common use of static data is so pervasive that an individual's
information
is found at thousands of institutions. The value of the information to the
criminal is that the same information can be used to perpetrate fraud
At 12:26 PM 7/1/2004, John Denker wrote:
The object of phishing is to perpetrate so-called identity
theft, so I must begin by objecting to that concept on two
different grounds.
Subsequent posters have doubted the wisdom of quibbling with the term identity
theft. I think the terminology
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Subject: Re: authentication and authorization (was: Question on the state of
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1) For starters, identity theft
Ian Grigg wrote:
The phishing thing has now reached the mainstream,
epidemic proportions that were feared and predicted
in this list over the last year or two.
OK.
For the first
time we are facing a real, difficult security
problem. And the security experts have shot
their wad.
The object