Re: can't get to the hackers? sue the banks instead.

["G. D. Fuego" <gdfuego () gmail com>]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:45:28PM -0400, The Security Community  
> wrote:
> > Didn't the press used to call it "credit card fraud" before "teh
> > Internets" came along?  Calling it "identity theft" seems to shift  
> > the
> > focus to the victim instead of the merchants and banks, where it
> > belongs.
>
> As I saw the other day (and can't re-locate at the moment, so please
> forgive the lack of link and proper attribution, and the  
> paraphrasing):
>
>    Customer: So, someone claimed to be me?
>    Bank: Yes.
>    Customer: And they successfully fooled you?
>    Bank: Yes.
>    Customer: And you gave them some of your money?
>    Bank: Yes
>    Customer: Good luck solving YOUR problem.

I think you might mean this.   It was post by Bruce Schneier on his  
site a while back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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