Online crime on the rise

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Diff is right, and the only way this is going to stop is to levy huge penalties for companies found to have personal information stolen. Until the cost of losing information is more than the cost of protecting it, this is going to continue.

I'm afraid of what would happen if cunning hackers get into the super matrix databases that have every bit of information about you (and yes, they do exist. I've seen them in action).

If I recall correctly it wasn't untill 1998 that ID theft was made a crime. It took some case where a man was ripped off for millions and harrased daily on the phone for things to change. That would be so horrible, to have someone ruin your credit and take your money and then call you up later to brag about it.

[Diff-chan]

I was surfing CNN, look at what I found:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Everyone who has applied to the school in the past eight years may have had their info compromised.

A lot of good spyware checkers and firewalls do you.

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A lot of good spyware checkers and firewalls do you.

It's not just hardware/software that's at fault. Inactive accounts, people selling/revealing their passwords and human error are also likely suspects. One compromised host is all it takes.

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It's not just hardware/software that's at fault. Inactive accounts, people selling/revealing their passwords and human error are also likely suspects. One compromised host is all it takes.

some of its cunts who actually work at these places taking payoffs for back ups of the current client list.