Comments on: Card Tricks http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4184.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: ElamBend http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4184.html/comment-page-1#comment-20309 ElamBend Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:46:54 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004184.php#comment-20309 On general principles, you name should not be associated with your actual address. I ghost address for mail (or a commercial box) helps. Also, you can opt your name out of the mix with the credit companies (like experion). On general principles, you name should not be associated with your actual address. I ghost address for mail (or a commercial box) helps. Also, you can opt your name out of the mix with the credit companies (like experion).

]]> By: Jonathan http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4184.html/comment-page-1#comment-20308 Jonathan Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:57:08 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004184.php#comment-20308 -One-time-use credit-card numbers are a good idea, not merely for special occasions but for routine use. I think that accounts with such features may already be available in Europe (perhaps other readers could confirm). -<a href="http://www.schneier.com/" rel="nofollow">Bruce Schneier</a> argues that most credit-card fraud could be prevented by passing laws to make credit-card issuers solely liable for fraudulent charges. Currently issuers have little incentive to be careful about whom they issue credit to, since merchants, and thus indirectly customers, eat any losses. -More generally, as the Wired article suggests, many businesses have an interest in perpetuating the current system in which individuals have no way to claim or buy ownership of valuable private information about themselves. -One-time-use credit-card numbers are a good idea, not merely for special occasions but for routine use. I think that accounts with such features may already be available in Europe (perhaps other readers could confirm).

-Bruce Schneier argues that most credit-card fraud could be prevented by passing laws to make credit-card issuers solely liable for fraudulent charges. Currently issuers have little incentive to be careful about whom they issue credit to, since merchants, and thus indirectly customers, eat any losses.

-More generally, as the Wired article suggests, many businesses have an interest in perpetuating the current system in which individuals have no way to claim or buy ownership of valuable private information about themselves.

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