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Privacynotes Digest
Security Protecting Privacy is Good for Business
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Published by: Mike Banks Valentine Privacynotes
privacy@privacynotes.com www.privacynotes.com
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January 16, 2003 Issue #040
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"Verisign Identity Service" ~ Eric Norlin
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"The Latest in Privacy Issues"
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== > TOPIC: VERISIGN IDENTITY SERVICE
From: Eric Norlin
Mike-
you ask if businesses are using Verisign's new service ... I
haven't heard of any *new* adopters, but I do know (via Verisign's
Chief Scientist, Phillip Hallam Baker) that eBay began testing
this service around the July timeframe, and that all indications
are that eBay will become a user of this service.
I agree that the total lack of coverage of this event by the
mainstream tech press is shocking ... apparently, they only want
to pick on centralized identity services if Microsoft runs them.
tks
ejn Senior Editor, Digital ID World www.digitalidworld.com
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Moderator note: There are two ways to access previously listed
privacy news stories. One is to visit Privacynotes archives, the
other (simpler) way is to visit
http://privacynotes.com/privacy_news.html
where I also keep a privacy news archive.
Users of a well-known roommate-matching service in Manhattan
say that after signing up with the service they began receiving
e-mail messages from a Holocaust-revisionist Web site run by the
service's founder. Michael Santomauro, who started the Roommate
Finders service in 1979, also runs a Web site called RePortersNoteBook.com
that is critical of Jews and Israel, with headlines like "How
Kosher Is the Holocaust Story?" Several users of Roommate Finders
said similar material began landing in their electronic mailboxes
soon after they gave their addresses to the service. One message
discussed the role of Jews in prostitution in the last century,
while another concluded, "The Hitler `gas chambers' never existed."
At the bottom of the messages were offers of related books in
exchange for a donation, along with Mr. Santomauro's name and
a link to his site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/nyregion/13ROOM.html
Thousands of military personnel facing deployment for a possible
war with Iraq are the US is also confronting a threat on the home
front with the risk of identity theft after burglars stole computerized
records from a health care company in Phoenix last month. The
names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates and Social Security
numbers of about 562,000 troops, dependents and retirees were
on laptops and computer hard drives stolen from a nondescript
building in an industrial park on Dec. 14, company officials said.
Some medical claim records for people on active duty were also
stolen from the company, TriWest Healthcare Alliance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/politics/12PRIV.html
