I finally got to cleaning up some my my piles of Information Week magazines. I actually kept a few good ones with some very interesting atricles as well as some funny one. I enjoy reading some of John Soat's articles like the one in issue "March 12, 2007" - "Thoughts On Dealing With Identity Theft", although it sounds funny, I agree with his points
- Drop the Social Security number. It wasn't intended as a personal identifier; Congress made that clear in 1936 when the system began. Now, everybody knows Social Security will be bankrupt in 25 years anyway, so let's put it out of its misery.
- Declare a moratorium on credit cards. Since, by most accounts, American consumers are drowning in debt, we'd be doing most people a favor. Online fraudsters also target debit cards, so let's stick with cash-only transactions.
- Ban the use of laptops. Let's go back to the old green-screen monitors. Nobody's going to be walking out of a building with one of those babies.
- Legalize phishing. If someone is stupid enough to fall for it, they deserve to get fleeced.
Here is the actual article link.