ID theft has been in the news because apparently people are throwing out too much sensitive information.
I was reading the comments on the BBC website (yes this is another post to bitch about people saying stupid stuff) and someone stated that
‘Readers should be worried – with chip and pin. Until the machines for entering the pin number are more private, it’s too easy to see what someone is doing and spot their pin number. All that needs to do then is mug them and get the card. Not very secure, to my mind.‘
Why do people keep saying this? Surely before chip and pin all someone had to do is mug me and forge my signature which is written on the back of the card! Now that chip and pin is here they actually have to see me tapping my pin in (or threaten me enough). At least if I drop it in the street people can’t use it with only the information written on it.
Now to stop me having to continually write bitter posts about people saying stupid stuff will someone please invent an open authenication system, that will be adopted by all websites. Onto this authenication system I want a system called ‘eSlap’. This will allow bitter and twisted people to directly contact people and point out their stupidity. This isn’t needed for this site of course (you all know my email)
