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Re: fringe follow-up: Police Say LifeLock Coerced Unusable Confession from Identity Theft Suspect
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:32:11 +0000 (UTC)
This makes my night. You can lay down on only so many railroad tracks before your shoelace gets caught... On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, security curmudgeon wrote: ": " ": " ": " ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ": " From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> ": " ": " Via Threat Level. ": " ": " [snip] ": " ": " A man who stole the identity of LifeLock co-founder Todd Davis won't face ": " criminal charges, police say, because LifeLock stepped in before the ": " police could finish investigating the crime and coerced the suspect into ": " making a videotaped confession that isn't admissible in court. ": " ": " Davis, you'll recall, publishes his Social Security number on LifeLock's ": " web site and in the company's TV commercials to demonstrate how effective ": " the company is in protecting the identity of its customers. Back in June I ": " disclosed that Davis himself had become a victim of identity theft after ": " someone used his Social Security number to obtain a $500 loan. The news ": " only added to the scrutiny and criticism the company was already facing ": " over the questionable background of its other founder Robert Maynard, Jr., ": " who subsequently resigned amid that other controversy. ": " ": " [snip] ": " ": " More: ": " http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/police-say-life.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 220 million compromised records in 734 incidents over 7 years.
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- fringe follow-up: Police Say LifeLock Coerced Unusable Confession from Identity Theft Suspect security curmudgeon (Jul 26)
- Re: fringe follow-up: Police Say LifeLock Coerced Unusable Confession from Identity Theft Suspect lyger (Jul 26)