Signature Authorization is Stupid Security
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
Ever forge your husband’s signature? Wife’s? Parent’s? Client’s? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? The fact is, a handwritten signature provides zero proactive security. If someone signs your name to a check, and you call the bank and say it wasn’t you, they look at the signature and determine whether it’s yours or not. From there they assign liability. That’s dumb.
MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals.
