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In Australia, dob is often used as part of telephone banking identity |
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checking, and just about any identity checking process (online/telephone |
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and offline) Whilst it is never (or should never be) used on its own, |
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it is part of the process - basicly posting you dob online is like |
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publicly declaring half your root password to your lifes assets ... and |
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your willing to gamble that someone wont have the other half? |
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BillK |
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:03, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Markus Nigbur wrote: |
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> [... About birthday ...] |
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> > > it is a piece of information that can help identity thieves. |
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> > Wanna go back to oldschool hacking? :) |
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> > Some people are just too paranoid. |
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> Guess I'll change my MasterCard PIN then... *oink* :) |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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