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Originally posted by Adeptus
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
In fact, you are given far more information about yourself out in your dustbin than you would on the net... OH NOOOOSS!!!1111!!! the garbage men are reading my bills and keeping track of how rich I am...
While someone obviously finds the notion very funny, thieves often go through garbage looking for credit card numbers and personal information.
That is one reason why, in recent years, stores have switched to printing only the last digits on receipts and no one takes card imprints anymore. Also, at least in the US, it is quite easy to obtain new credit (in form of credit cards or instant financing of large purchases) using someone else's stolen personal information. It is called "identity theft".
Absolutely, and that is indeed the exact reason why I posted that. Although it is
funny, such stuff poses much more risc to your privacy than an ISP logging data traffic in a genuine way for legit reasons.
And the problem is quite often that people shout about their stuff being logged by an ISP, while that is perfectly legit and in 99,99999% cases done in a very secure way and for proper reasons taking the law in account etc, but they don't take care of what they throw away in their bin everyday.
Identity theft is something which happens way more than someone reading what you write to someone.
Heck, even take all those hotmail accounts which are hacked, aka password and identity stolen. The amount of those dwarfs the amount of people actually being able to read what someone else is writing.
Simply because that is where privacy issues begin, your identity. Privacy issues don't begin with an ISP logging your chats for legit reasons.
Take that other thread for example where a script was created which shows to others who you are talking to. This is a blunt breach on the privacy of the people I'm talking to. Yet it was apparently seen as 'normal' and no issue, while on the other hand people are affraid that an ISP can see that you've chatted 2 hours with the girlfriend of your friend... I mean
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