Sun, Jan 29 2006 18:10
Don
Cellcos and Senate vs Social Engineering
New legislation proposed by Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) and backed
by heavyweights from both major parties, seeks to criminalize both the
practitioners and the dupes of "social engineering".
That's just a fancy way of smooth-talking someone out of some
information they shouldn't normally impart, but it has been the most
effective technique for fraudsters, hackers and private eyes over the
years.
Schumer's bill, the proposed Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act
of 2006, makes disclosing a subscriber's phone records an offence. It
specifically outlaws making false statements or providing phoney
documentation to a phone provider in order to obtain the records, and
accessing an account over the net without the subscriber's
authorization.
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