CBS - Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. In the process, it’s turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data. If you’re in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold. “The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms,” John Juntunen said, “that information would be very valuable.”
Carquestions finds NHTSA posting peoples personal information such as Social Security numbers, driver licence numbers, names addresses, date of birth and medical information. Mark only searched a dozen complaints before finding all these privacy violations. Will NHTSA be sued by angry owners instead of Toyota? Will NHTSA get fined thousands of dollars? Now the shoe is on the other foot. NHTSA needs to shut down the complaints database until it is fixed.
Ethical hacker Chris Paget demonstrates a low-cost mobile device that surreptitiously reads and clones RFID tags embedded in United States passport cards and enhanced drivers’ licenses. For full story, see The Register article at: www.theregister.co.uk
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www.creditsecretsbible.com IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION How to prevent ID Theft with nothing but your telephone. Listen. You don’t need identity theft insurance. It’s a joke. Have you ever read the guarantees on those things? Has more holes in it than swiss cheese. All they’re doing is charging you to do what you can do yourself. We’re not talking about you doing your own root canal here. Were talking about making a some phone calls… and then setting a reminder on outlook express to make 1 …