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How does it work in US, you just look at the guy and then he sends you his IBAN? Aren’t companies required to establish an employee’s origin by bureaucratic me
by wruza 2y ago
How does it work in US, you just look at the guy and then he sends you his IBAN?
Aren’t companies required to establish an employee’s origin by bureaucratic means? IDs, SSNs, notarized copies, work permit, etc? Why are North Korean guys even a problem, it feels like they shouldn’t be able to fake identification numbers and permits, unless something is fundamentally wrong with the country’s accounting.
- yread 2y agothey dont have iban in the US. That would be communism
- jen20 2y agoWhat? Every US account I have can receive international transactions via an IBAN number. They just aren't used for domestic transactions - this is the same in the UK (where a sort code is used in place of a routing code, but has exactly the same purpose).
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoThey use Swift BIC and an account number at the branch because that’s already there and there is one thing American banks hate even more than communism it’s change and having to spend any kind of money to modernise.
- sudosysgen 2y agoIndeed there is such a thing, it's the I-9 document check and is required for all new employees. The problem is that identity theft is so ridiculously easily in the US that it's trivial for bad actors to just steal someone's identity. The solution is to fix identity theft.
- jen20 2y agoThis starts with the framing. One does not have their identity stolen. The counterparty is instead defrauded into believing something that is not true - and the problem must be made entirely theirs.
- wat10000 2y agoIt’s mad. Criminal A defrauds company B by pretending to be some rando C. And somehow this ends up being C’s problem, and we just accept this as normal.
- NemoNobody 2y agoExperian was hacked and 168 million Americans had all of lives information stolen - the data that is supposed to verify who I am and tracks all of my financial life, everywhere I've ever lived and of course my social security number. Not one thing to fix this was done. Anyone could buy my information and be me, NOTHING was done to fix this insanely huge problem.
- cyanydeez 2y agoAmerica cares very little about actual security beyond military nukes.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoI would qualify your statement this way. In my experience, National Security tends to mean the security of (primarily) the US Gov and (secondarily) Gov contractors and major campaign donors. National Security applies to individuals when justification is needed to deploy systems that surveil Americans (not suspected of a crime).
- ipython 2y agoEven then, the priority for nukes is availability not “security” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link > For a long time the U.S. military resisted the use of PALs. It feared the loss of its own independence, and it feared malfunction, which could put warheads out of action in a time of crisis.
- wruza 2y agoBut they can’t fake notarization, can they? What I’m getting from your comment is that they can send a screenshot of your id and that’s enough. If so, it is indeed a problem on the employers/legislation side. Expecting your numbers to not leak was a bad plan from the beginning. You should be able to publish these without any serious consequences for anyone involved (apart from deanonymization-related issues basically). I’m also heavily “leaked”, but nobody can do anything with my numbers without actual counterfeiting. I could share my ids here if not for pseudonymity. The fact that your identity can be legally hired into a company without your proven id hard copies, that’s the root of the problem, imo.