Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

I give you an example of medical identity theft.  At least how it can happen 
stateside.
You are say a senior or someone with a print disability in a doctor's 
office.
You must get help completing the forms, and the first question you 
must provide  is...?
your social security umber.   Add that you may also be providing this 
person private insurance numbers and the like.  A person need only write down our 
identification and have a field day.
Given how challenging it is to correct damage done on your credit file, 
see the informative story on the 60 minutes website about this, a person 
may never get cleared.  the thief on the other hand is getting credit cards 
and cell phones and medial things with your information.
because the victim may not be able to investigate with ease, they might 
not even know their identity has been compromised.
make sense?
Kare

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, shawn wilson wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:54 AM, John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > Bill Wood writes:
>
> > > and medical identity theft has risen sharply in recent years.
> >
> > What is medical identity theft?
>
> I'd also be interested seeing the proof for the claim (I think he
> means medical data breaches but IDK anyone has disclosed that
> information).
>
>
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