http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/107 IT management in a changing IT world Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/107#comment-39119 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » It is now safe to steal my identity Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:24:12 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/107#comment-39119 [...] solution is to publish every single SSN on a web site and stop pretending they can be used for [...] [...] solution is to publish every single SSN on a web site and stop pretending they can be used for [...]

]]> http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/107#comment-5313 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » We won’t get rid of SSN-based authentication anytime soon… Tue, 08 May 2007 22:51:57 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/107#comment-5313 [...] I agree that the Real ID effort is a bad cost/benefit trade off in terms of protection against terrorism. But leaving terrorism aside, we do need a robust (not necessarily perfect) way to authenticate people to access bank accounts and other similar transactions. In that respect, something like Real ID is needed. And in that context, the cost/benefit trade-off can be hugely positive if you think of how much impersonation costs and how much friction it creates in the country’s economy. As long as we live in denial about what a Social Security number represents and as long as we can’t think sanely about terrorism, there can’t be an answer to the authentication problem. [...] [...] I agree that the Real ID effort is a bad cost/benefit trade off in terms of protection against terrorism. But leaving terrorism aside, we do need a robust (not necessarily perfect) way to authenticate people to access bank accounts and other similar transactions. In that respect, something like Real ID is needed. And in that context, the cost/benefit trade-off can be hugely positive if you think of how much impersonation costs and how much friction it creates in the country’s economy. As long as we live in denial about what a Social Security number represents and as long as we can’t think sanely about terrorism, there can’t be an answer to the authentication problem. [...]

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