Digital BW, The Print

According to our consultants, valid name/SSN pairs sell for about $50 each,
depending on volume. So, a theft of 50-100,000 ID's is a pretty good payday,
and seems to happen every week.  I'll second Jules.  Whenever available, use
a PIN (e.g., driver's license) instead of an SSN.  And get your free annual
credit report, as required by law.  People are pretty lazy/stupid with this
info, e.g., no strong encryption, stolen servers, raid drives or laptops.
Certainly this is OT, but maybe the thread will help photographers who buy
stuff online, i.e., most all photographers.  Back to trying to make a good
image without worrying about the bad persons.

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of lulalake_1999
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:20 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Some comments about Light 
> Impressions. Better recommendation.WHOA!!!!
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Coda" 
> <rcoda@...> wrote:
> >
> > Joe:
> > 
> > Try your SSN, if you feel comfortable with that. Usually 
> they are the 
> > same unless you are a corporation.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> I must disagree a thousand percent, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER send 
> your SSN across the internet.
> 
> Again, NEVER post your SSN on the net, no matter to whom nor 
> how "secure" a site is.
> 
> Jules