Chip and PIN

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:00:47 +0000


In article 
<a2b6592c0801241410w4226a97dkab88322c06d260d9@mail.gmail.com>, Igor 
Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> writes
>On a separate note, can we please stop calling (at least on this list)
>someone pretending to be you "identity theft" - nobody steals who you
>are, in the sense that you no longer possess it - "identity mimicry"
>is a more relevant and less sensationalistic term...

I agree. When your Credit Card is cloned that isn't normally called 
"Card Theft" - you still have the original card.

I note that the French "Leeson" incident earlier this week is 
universally being called "Fraud", when "incompetence" seems more 
appropriate.
-- 
Roland Perry