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IRS believes Russians are behind tax return data breach
- dmfdmf 11y agoLike the North Koreans were behind the Sony hack, right? This smacks of convenient scare mongering ahead of the Patriot Act renewal.
- dredmorbius 11y agoWhat's behind the data breach is: 1. A culture of woefully inadequate security over personal data. 2. An infrastructure in which a laughably low standard of identity proof is sufficient. 3. A lack of liability for those who either facilitate or approve fraud. 4. A mis-labeling of impersonation fraud. It's not "identity theft". It's impersonation fraud. And those who accept transactions with insufficient proof of identity are to blame. I'm increasingly questioning the merits of utilizing the Internet for personal transactions at all. Richard M. Stallman has had some good things to say on this, recently posted to HN.