Facebook pressuring banks for customer private info

[MadMage999]

Kind of like the Social Security number here in the US. They swore it was not going to be used to identify people, now it's part of the required ID for anything.

[Goeroeboeroe]

We have that number here too (it's called different). When they started with it, it was only used for some things. Then the government wanted to use it for really everything (everything: taxes, social security, chamber of commerce, passport, health assurance, ...). Several advice committees (from the government itself) advised not to use the original number. Because of privacy, identity theft, etc.
So the government, like a good, caring government, listened. They didn't use the original number. They changed it's name and used that. And said it was now something completely different.

[GreyGeek]

It's amazing that all those cameras can see the rape gangs driving around looking for victims, of the actual rapes when they find a victim. It doesn't matter how many cameras you've got spying if you politically blind yourself to the reality occurring all around you.

[woodsmoke]

FB users in and of themselves are at least somewhat clueless and willingly give up information.

One of those "FB entities" started a thread where it asked everyone to post the name of their high school.

Innocuous enough it would seem but being people who love to have people stare at "me" a lot of them were offering all sorts of information about when they graduated and other stuff.

For grins and giggles I started clicking some of the people at random and viewed their "about" wherein one is very nicely encouraged to list all of one's schools, all of one's employment history and all relatives...

After checking the about of FIVE people I noticed that TWO listed a phone number.

And, as we all know one can "reverse lookup" an address for people ESPECIALLY when one pays a five dollar fee...hmmm...

So...

all that a cybercriminal who has a possee in a certain city has to do is to check this "volunteer information thread"...

Look through the about, verify that this or that person is in town..

Look at the work history to pick people who would probably have a nice income and therefore a nice house...

follow those people until they start posting ALL THOSE WONDERFUL SELFIES THAT THEY ARE ON VACATION ON ANOTHER CONTINENT...

drive over to the house...sit it out for a day or so to verify that there is not a house sitter

walk by with a sniffer to check for real time cameras...

And while listening with a nice digital ear...

"BUTT CALL" the phone number to verify that the people really are away...

Bust in ...take what they want

all the normal stuff but also, credit card bills... bank statements...

all while wearing glitter masks just in case that there are other cameras...

and cross reference that with "breach data" that they purchased on the web for pennies...

and all from a seemingly innocuous thead about "what high school did you go to".

wood smoke

[GreyGeek]

Woody, are you a fence?

[woodsmoke]

LOL
no but it would provide valuable income!

As an addin to this I have a friend who just texted me that the hackers are really stepping up cloning FB pages and pasting parts of them onto their page and then requesting that friends of the hacked person go to their "new" fb page which is bogus

It is just amazing to me the default stuff for FB like wanting your TELEPHONE number and that people blithely provide such.

woodsmoke

[jglen490]

Wow! From Facebook doing something stupid (again) to signs of the end times. Geek news?

[GreyGeek]

Kind of like the Social Security number here in the US. They swore it was not going to be used to identify people, now it's part of the required ID for anything.

And when the Income tax Act was ratified in 1913 they claimed it was only a tax on the "rich" and would affect less that 2% of the population. Stephen Field made a more prophetic prediction:

When Congress passed another income tax in 1894—one that only hit the top 2 percent of wealth holders—the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Stephen Field, a veteran of 30 years on the Court, was outraged that Congress would pass a bill to tax a small voting bloc and exempt the larger group of voters. At age 77, Field not only repudiated Congress’s actions, he also penned a prophecy. A small progressive tax, he predicted, “will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.”


In 1913, almost 20 years later, the ideas of uniform taxation and equal protection of the law for all citizens were overturned when a constitutional amendment permitting a progressive income tax was ratified. Congress first set the top rate at a mere 7 percent—and married couples were only taxed on income over $4,000 (equivalent to $80,000 today). During the tax debate, William Shelton, a Georgian, supported the income tax “because none of us here have $4,000 incomes, and somebody else will have to pay the tax.” As Madison and Field had feared, the seeds of class warfare were sown in the strategy of different rates for different incomes.