[IP] DoJ wants ISPs to retain data - mother of all credit card data thefts
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From: hugh-list <hugh-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 18, 2005 9:55:54 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] DoJ wants ISPs to retain data - mother of all
credit card data thefts
So two of the this week's big stories are
a) Some company that concentrates and retains a lot of personal
transaction data allowed some sort of computer code to access and
steal the data of 40 million credit card holders.
b) The department of Justice would like to force ISPs to concentrate
and retain the data generated by their customers in one place so that
it is convenient for the DoJ (and data thieves ? ) to access. ( some
reports mention terrorism as a factor )
So if I understand this, the DoJ would like to set up one stop
shopping for identity thieves ( and terrorists ) who would be able to
get an internet user's credit card info, a record of what they buy
from and from who they buy it, any online airline ticket sales, a
record of blogs, email, dating services and whatever else an ISP's
customer does online.
One of the ways the credit card companies detect fraud is by noticing
new and unusual behavior. Armed with the info they get from an ISP's
retained data, fraudsters can pick the identitys of people with a
history consistent with the fraud they wish to perpetrate.Now in
addition to old fashioned credit card fraud a crook or terrorist
could even more successfully impersonate their victim.
You want to buy 8 tones of ammonium nitrate or a thousand gallons of
diesel fuel and have it delivered to the corner of a field in a
remote location? What better way than to have the credit card info
and address of a farmer who makes these transactions on a regular basis?
Want to get on an airplane to Washington DC but you are on one of
those pesky no fly lists? Just grep the convenient ISP retained
records for airline ticket sales to Washington DC, match those sales
to members of online dating services, find someone who has the
"paperless ticket" for a flight you want and looks like you, mug them
on their way to the airport, and there you are at the gate, with a
ticket and a photo ID.
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