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[id] Q. What could this boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you? A. Way too much — the Guardian on personal data and identity fraud. ‘…surfing publicly available databases, we were able – within 15 minutes – to find out where Broer lived, who lived there with him, where he worked, which universities he had attended and even how much his house was worth when he bought it two years ago. (This was particularly easy given his unusual name, but it would have been possible even if his name had been John Smith. We now had his date of birth and passport number, so we would have known exactly which John Smith.)’

What could a boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you?

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 1:54 pm and is filed under Crime, Tech.

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Is it “oh no!”, or “oh well?”….

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