Re: Colorado Supreme Court: Using a Stolen Social Security Number is Not Identity Theft

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:
> Did anyone actually read the ruling?
> They're basically saying a SSN# isn't an identity.
>
> Given that SSN#'s aren't actually unique in the population, they're, you
> know, right.
Expand, please.

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:52:03 PST, "Tomas L. Byrnes" said:
> > >
> > > > While I would never advocate criminality, it would be poetic justice if
> > > > the SSIDs of all the justices who voted in favor of this SSIDs were
> > > > posted on some website used to sell such data to those looking for
> > > > "clean credit".
> > > >
> > > > After all, it is no big deal, according to them.
> > >
> > > My reading of it is that they didn't think it was "no big deal", it was
> > > that the law *as written* didn't make it actually *illegal*.  In cases
> > > like
> > > that, don't complain about the judge, complain about the legislative
> > > body
> > > that wrote the flawed law.
> > Its funny how Judges will "legislate from the bench" when it suits
> > them or their keepers (or fraternity brothers, or college buddies, or
> > former law partners, or those making campaign contributions, etc)....
> >
> > Jeff

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