megarock
join:2001-06-28
Saint Louis, MO | reply to DVOOR8
Re: Slow
Sad but true. |
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downtownman
@speakeasy.n
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Yes, you have to ask the Federal Government to protect you, because if they just step in to take the appropriate action you all bitch about more big brother....
Make up your damn minds. It's the difference between having the cops chase down the people that ripped you off, or following you around 24-7 just because...you have a shaved head, goatee and tatoos.  |
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
Premium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to Kip patterson
Perhaps not, but Choicepoint is a proof of concept that this kind of information can be obtained by unauthorized persons.
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Kip patterson
Premium
join:2000-10-23
Columbus, OH | reply to 91439306
Choicepoint is NOT a credit card clearing house. There is no reason to think that the Choicepoint scam has any thing to do with Pluto. |
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91439306
15,000 Watts of Bass Power
join:2002-10-16
New Milford, CT
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The issue here is that a credit clearing house (one that warehouses your personal data and the date of millions of American citizens who use credit) had their database compromised by unscrupulous customers who bought access to that data by posing as legitimate creditors/merchant account holders.
This was not reported as a zombie/phishing attack. It was social engineering that occured, according to the reports I've read.
What will have to happen is either stricter control over whom the clearing houses like ChoicePoint Data accept as clients, or the removal of the ability of companies like that to maintain databases of personal information. Since the latter is unlikely, I'd expect that this could happen again.
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL
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Yes, you have to ask the Federal Government to protect you, because if they just step in to take the appropriate action you all bitch about more big brother....
Make up your damn minds.
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I have a shaved head, a goatee, and tatoos. Don't you realize the rules don't apply to me. |
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RavenTKR
join:2003-05-12
Cleveland, OH | reply to DVOOR8
They could indeed hire a lobbyist firm with the money they stole. |
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jjp4345
join:2005-03-22
Montgomery, AL
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The small companies and individuals do not have lobbyists, so their interests are of no concern to the Federal Government and Congress. One need only look at the aviation problem after 9/11 to see that. A senior aide to Trasnportation Security Administrator was quoted as saying on September 23, 2002, "Neither TSA nor the Federal Government is interested in any technology to prevent the hijacking of aircraft." Makes you wonder where he was on 9/11. Also, most of the members of Congress say "the reason new technologies to prevent the hijacking of aircraft, like SRTA001, are not being funded is the American public is not asking for them to be funded." Did you know you had to ask the Federal Government and Congress to protect you? |
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RavenTKR
join:2003-05-12
Cleveland, OH | reply to DVOOR8
This scenario sounds a little bit far fetched, but who knows? |
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DVOOR8
join:2001-12-24
USA
 ·Optimum Online
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said by RavenTKR  :I would say they're busy doing the bidding for MPAA/RIAA. I wonder why they prioritize copyright infringement violators for credit card theft. Because of the influence RIAA/MPAA wields in Congress and to our politicians. If the lobbyists are not filling the politicians and law makers pockets, there is no concern. If Pluto D Nicosa hired a lobbyist firm and paid off enough lawmakers, he could make this kind of scam perfectly legal and have the victims tossed in jail for questioning the charges. |
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