Identity theft

[avevale_intelligencer]

Since I became a regular user of the internet, in order to do what I have done on it, I have supplied my name, address, telephone number, date of birth, card numbers and so on and so forth to approximately fifty squillion people, all of whom swore up and down they were never going to breathe a word of it to anyone else and all of whom could quite easily have been lying through their teeth. If I had not done this, I could not have done what I have done with the internet.

So, as far as I'm concerned, my identity is pretty much lost and gone forever anyway, and there is absolutely no point trying to scare me with stories about the evul commies.

So please, dear internet, lay the frod off. It's done already.

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

> So people then write them down...

So if someone burgles your house and might have found your piece of paper (or steals your wallet if you need the password with you), then you need to contact your bank and credit card companies - which in that situation you almost certainly need to anyway.
Or you use something like http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html and remember one hard non-shared password which protects the rest you need.