Negative Space: identity theft
- Allow men to impersonate exes, transgender activists say
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Some transgender activists want banks to reduce the security on bank accounts, enabling abusive exes to access their victims’ bank accounts.
- How does Apple’s supposed anti-conservative bias matter?
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If you think Apple has a bias against conservatives or Christians, you definitely don’t want Apple to build a tool its employees can use to help guess an iPhone’s password.
- Insecurity Questions enable harassment and abuse
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Insecurity questions are designed specifically to let someone who does not have your password access your account without having to talk to a human. The idea is that that person will be you after you forget your password, but the computer does not care. Anyone or anything with that information can access your account.
- Should Apple enable exes to access their ex-spouse’s iPad?
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Chris Matyszczyk wants Apple to just believe someone who says their spouse died, and give access to their iPad, then claims that this is how everything else, from house titles to bank accounts work. Unfortunately, he’s not far off there.
More Information
- 2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm
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“The attacker had merely called in to PayPal’s customer support, pretended to be me and was able to reset my password by providing nothing more than the last four digits of my Social Security number and the last four numbers of an old credit card account.”
