I believe we are in a meltdown state on all this identy stuff.
20 years ago I was ordering computer stuff from a mail order place, I often did. The gal said do you want to put it on your credit card, number x,y,z....
I said sure.
Hung up, and thought, um, wait, should she be reading my number to me? That isn't right....
Things have gone downhill since then. Every marketer wants a complete database on me, and link every bit of info together, it makes it easier to sell and market to me.
But they can't afford to keep up the computer security; their choice is to keep marketing and building data bases, and worry about the security when its a problem.
Target found out last Christmas.
But every shop everywhere has the same problems.
A friend of mine used to work in computer security at Best Buy decades ago. He says he is glad he doesn't do that any more, the bad people sitting in Russia and China are progressing a lot, lot faster than security options are on our side.
I guess it all needs to blow apart before it gets built back up safely again.
This is a real problem that is going to cost all of us, but we can't do much about it.
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