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Comment Re:Account hijack is a bigger threat (Score 1) 193

Freezing credit lines does squat to stop the identity thieves from hijacking your accounts. They got social security number, driver license number and dates of birth.

If your records show multiple dates of birth, you might be a victim of identity theft. Or your mom was trying to hide something.

Comment Re: Who's Responsibility? (Score 2) 246

Suppose the general is abusing his son. Suppose he is discussing something with his mistress. Suppose the general is dressing up in his daughter's clothes. Knowing any of that could make him vulnerable to coercion. This leverage could be used to influence the general in subtle ways.

One reason people objected to the collection of meta-data was that with sufficient, seemingly innocent, data it is possible to discern guilty behavior.

Comment Re:Fighting greed with greed (Score 1) 834

Trump is giving the people exactly what they asked for, but he isn't paying attention to the people who understand the systems already in place. He thinks his ideas are the best, the best, fabulous, truly amazing ideas, regardless of their actual effects.

FTFY

Comment More useful? (Score 1) 303

This script seems to be useless behind a cablemodem/router combination.

"Officer my computer says it's IP address is 192.168.1.10."
"So does mine. Does that mean I have your missing laptop?"

Wouldn't traceroute myserver.mycompany.tld provide better information?

Any other suggestions for improving the information from the script?

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