How I Stole Someone's Identity: Scientific American - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Mar 09
  

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  • • it first sent an e-mail to her address with a reset link
    • When I tried to reset the password on her G-mail account, Google sent its password reset e-mail to her old college e-mail account. Interestingly, G-mail actually tells you the domain
    • When I used the "forgot my password" link on the college e-mail server, it asked me for some information to reset the password: home address? (check—found it on that old resume online); home zip code? (check—resume); home country? (uh, okay, check—found it on the resume); and birth date? (devastating—I didn't have this). I needed to get creative.
    • Department of Motor Vehicles
    • speeding ticket
    • birth date (among other things).
    • Blog: In a rare moment of clarity I simply searched her blog for "birthday
    • Turns out that I was off on the year of birth but, incredibly, the university password reset Web page gave me five chances and even told me which field had inaccurate information!
• 17 Oct 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online

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• 18 Sep 08
  

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• 08 Sep 08
  

  Julien PIERRE

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• 26 Aug 08
  

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• 24 Aug 08
  

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• 23 Aug 08
  

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• 22 Aug 08
  

  jeunium jeunium

  The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online
  

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• 21 Aug 08
  

  Alexandre Enkerli
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• 20 Aug 08
  

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  Mary C

  The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online

• 19 Aug 08
  

  Carlos Granier-Phelps

  "An experiment that includes a little digging on social networks, blogs and Internet search engines shows how can you put together information about people like pieces of a puzzle—And it's not a pretty picture for security or privacy."
  
  By Herbert H. Thompson

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