"Paper trails, though, are terrifying to regulated institutions. Your bank’s customer support representatives are taught to evaluate whether someone looks like they’re competent and collecting a paper trail. If they are, the CS rep is supposed to stop touching the case immediately and instead escalate them to a supervisor or to the legal department. The … Continue reading Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You | Kalzumeus Software
Month: September 2017
A Text-Only World
"Security-conscious users must demand that their email providers offer a plain-text option. Unfortunately, such options are few and far between, but they are a key to stemming the webmail insecurity epidemic. Mail providers that refuse to do so should be avoided, just like back alleys that are bad places to conduct business. Those online back … Continue reading A Text-Only World
