Economics of Identity Theft [electronic resource] : Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures /
Camp, L. Jean.author.
Today, identity is more than anything, economic. The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill-matched to the economics and uses of identities. Identity theft is the misuse of private authenticating information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. Together, these points illustrate that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science, economics and several other disciplines. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliography and index.
Identity in Economics, and in Context -- Modern Technological and Traditional Social Identities -- Identity Theft -- Who Owns You? -- Defeating the Greatest Masquerade -- Secrecy, Privacy, Identity -- Security and Privacy as Market Failures -- Trusting Code and Trusting Hardware -- Technologies of Identity -- Anonymous Identifiers -- Digital Signatures -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Biometrics -- Reputation -- Scenario I: Your Credentials Please -- Scenario II: Universal National Identifier -- Scenario III: Sets of attributes -- Scenario IV: Ubiquitous Identity Theft -- Closing.
Today, identity is more than anything, economic. The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill-matched to the economics and uses of identities. Identity theft is the misuse of private authenticating information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. Together, these points illustrate that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science, economics and several other disciplines. .
Biometrics (Biology).
Data encryption (Computer science).
Economics.
Management science.
Computer security.
Business.
Computer communication systems.
Biometrics.
Cryptology.
Economics, general.
Systems and Data Security.
Business and Management, general.
Computer Communication Networks.