From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31945 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Sep 2003 23:12:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4967 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 23:12:53 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <20030929140316.GA2294@gentoo.org> References: <1064805321.2112.1.camel@dupre.home> <200309282337.34607.vapier@gentoo.org> <20030929152717.04aa48ab.pYrania@gentoo.org> <20030929140316.GA2294@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1064877152.8112.9.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:12:32 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS X-Archives-Salt: d328af4a-3462-4e6e-af13-855971d5b821 X-Archives-Hash: a922dc07ccbeb0979ea6a88be416197a In Australia, dob is often used as part of telephone banking identity checking, and just about any identity checking process (online/telephone and offline) Whilst it is never (or should never be) used on its own, it is part of the process - basicly posting you dob online is like publicly declaring half your root password to your lifes assets ... and your willing to gamble that someone wont have the other half? BillK On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:03, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Markus Nigbur wrote: > [... About birthday ...] > > > it is a piece of information that can help identity thieves. > > > > Wanna go back to oldschool hacking? :) > > Some people are just too paranoid. > > Guess I'll change my MasterCard PIN then... *oink* :) > > Sven Vermeulen -- William Kenworthy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list