Entries from March 2005

You’re not as clean as you think

March 16, 2005

Delusions of anonymity

ChoicePoint, Worse than Hacked

March 2, 2005

What’s ironic about what happened at ChoicePoint is that they actually sell identify verfication services. For example, if you order a birth certificate online in the United States, you’re probably going through the VitalChek Network (a subsidiary of ChoicePoint) who decides who you are and if you’re legitimately asking for a document you’re entitled to. [...]