When you think about it, it's downright scary how many different computers we're all in. Every so often when I hear a news report about security being compromised at such and such company and a few thousand people having to be on alert that their info is inside some stolen computer or hacked server, it really pisses me off.
Fricken Telus wanted my drivers license number to give me a goddamn land line. What the hell do you need that for? When I refused she asked me for my AHC number. Seriously. I actually refused to give her either number and the transaction stopped. They wouldn't hook it up without one of those two numbers. Somehow, my sister who works at Telus managed to convince me to relent on the issue.... But it still really drives me nuts.
The other day I stopped for gas at Petro. I went in to pay and the guy told me that if I had a petro card I'd save 5 bucks or whatever. So he gives me this thing to fill out and it's asking for my name and address and bday and stuff. So I told him to forget about it. Dude keeps yapping about how great it is and I'll save 5 bucks and whatever so I took the form and completely BS'd on the thing to save the money. Like I'm seriously going to leave a piece of paper in a f***ing gas station with my name and address and bday and phone number and email and all that crap.
I think that we, as in people alive today and old enough to be doing business and whatnot, are going to be victims of a major crime wave of identity theft. It'll all get ironed out in a decade or so, but not until businesses find better, more secure ways to maintain a relationship with their clients without clients having to give them every detail about themselves to buy a cd.
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