Here’s an interesting article on identity theft and social security earnings that was passed to me by a colleague. According to the article, the IRS, the Social Security Administration (SSA), and the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS - formerly the INS) all collect information about double and multiple uses of the same social security [...]

Here’s an update to my post on The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen, and “the Wikipedia Problem.”
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student, has built a search tool that traces the addresses of those who are editing Wikipedia.
The not surprising answers: Diebold — to suppress criticism of their electronic voting machines and to play down [...]

Probably everyone reading this has a broadband internet connection. But if you’re like me, you have parents and other significant people in your lives for whom you are the “IT Department.” Holiday time may involve sessions sitting at a vintage Windows machine with an installation of Millenium Edition because “email is broken.” And the [...]