[identity-theft] Forum Topics

Sanjib Mitra is a man who likes to be responsible and do the right thing. A year ago he discovered, quite by accident, that a little bit of URL tweaking could reveal personal data about people other than himself within a website database. He was completing a complicated application form …

The Internet has shown that reputations are important but don't have to be tied to specific real individuals. The entire banking system is built on top of the idea of reputation, but tries hard to tie them to real identities. The problem of identity theft is likely to break this …

Here's a worrying trend - people are pretending to be other people on the Internet and social networks. So far, so incredibly well-known, predictable and not at all surprising. What is perhaps more of a surprise is that when a fake is uncovered they tend to [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7929360.stm"]stick around[/URL]. They don't …

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been booted from Twitter after the social networking service said an account set up in his name was by an impersonator. The account, @OHHDL -- for The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- launched over the weekend and gained more than 20,000 …