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Your anecdote about inter-carrier billing is a good one. It reminds me of a position one of my best friends takes on "identity theft." He asserts it simply do
by late2part 10y ago
Your anecdote about inter-carrier billing is a good one.
It reminds me of a position one of my best friends takes on "identity theft." He asserts it simply doesn't exist.
What bank's call identity theft most of the world calls "Bank Fraud." The banks don't want to eat it - so they lobby congress to pass laws making it your fault if a bad person tricks the bank.
tl;dr: Similar to how banks try to make identity theft your problem when it's really bank fraud.
- gertef 10y ago"Mitchell & Webb Sound - Identity Theft" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
- Terr_ 10y agoExactly: While "identify theft" is worth keeping around to refer to a kind of criminality, at least 90% of the time the real problem is institutions which fail their due-diligence. Then they deny their negligent role and try to unjustly shift the cost onto their customers. What we actually need (as a society) is better backpressure on this kind of stuff, so that the institutions and processes actually improve at the weak point.