more on "Identity Theft for Dummies"?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: Re: STOP:: FW: "Identity Theft for Dummies"?


Thanks Dave.  Another identity theft vulnerability concerns
on-line resumes (freely available to anyone). I just finished
a paper on how these can be used to fraudulently obtain
new credit cards.  Below is the abstract.  The short paper
is available at 
<http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/idangel/index.html>.

Title: AI Technologies to Defeat Identity Theft Vulnerabilities

Abstract:
When a large number of citizens are at risk to identity theft,
national security and economic prosperity are threatened.
This work shows that thousands of Americans are at such risk,
and introduces technology, named Identity Angel, to help.
Identity Angels goal is to crawl through information available
on the World Wide Web (Web) and notify people for whom
information, freely available on the Web, can be combined
sufficiently to impersonate them in financial or credentialing
transactions. This is an ambitious goal due to the various
types of available information and the many inferences that
relate disparate pieces of data. Therefore, the work presented
herein focuses specifically on acquiring information sufficient
to fraudulently acquire a new credit card using on-line resumes.
An imposter needs to learn the {name, Social Security Number,
address, date of birth} of a subject. Results show how resumes
containing needed information can automatically be found and
values harvested, and how many subjects removed such
information from the Web once notified.

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