tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Who steals my identity steals trash"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Who steals my identity steals trash. | Comment Who steals my identity steals trash Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@ Published 2 December 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 122 doi gb-2005-6-l2-l22 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 l2 l22 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Who steals my purse steals trash said my mother a lifelong Bardophile using a favorite quote from Othello to make a point to her then-10-year-old son but if someone steals your good name. Shouldn t that be Who steals my purse steals cash I said brightly thereby earning myself yet another in my seemingly endless childhood trips to the woodshed. Yes I was a smart-aleck even then. But her point stuck. I know that one s good name is among the most precious of possessions. I also know that identity theft is no joke and that those people to whom it has happened have often found it to be a prolonged nightmare. Nevertheless. I ve been thinking about this lately because as the holiday season once again descends upon us with all the subtlety of a mudslide in the US the Christmas shopping period now apparently starts in July treating us to rather alarming pictures of Santa Claus in full winter regalia while the outside temperature has plunged to a frigid 94 F I ve been doing a lot of shopping online. It s convenient rapid offers a wide range of choices and seems natural since I spend about 23 hours a day at the computer terminal anyway. And of course every online merchant has plastered the store website with reassurances of how secure the transaction is. Don t worry they say just as I m about to enter an increasingly worrisome amount of personal information which doesn t yet include sexual history but wait until next year this transaction is completely secure. That s supposed to alleviate all my anxieties. You ll note that they don t tell you how it s secure .