Economics of Identity Theft

Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-68614-1
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

This 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 placing biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The last chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. While a plethora of books on identity theft exists, this book combines both technical and economic aspects, presented from the perspective of the identified individual.  

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of Figures & Tables;6
2;List of Contributors;7
3;Preface;8
4;Acknowledgments;10
5;Table of Contents;11
6;1. Identity in Economics, and in Context;12
6.1;Where are Your Papers?;13
7;2. Modern Technological and Traditional Social Identities;16
7.1;Identity In a Community;16
7.2;Papers vs. Avatars;18
7.3;The Elements of Identity;22
8;3. Identity Theft;28
8.1;Avoiding Identity Theft, Individually;31
8.2;Identity versus Risk Management;36
9;4. Who Owns You?;44
9.1;Me@WhereIAm;45
9.2;Email Trust-Based Viruses;46
9.3;Possible Solutions;47
9.4;Federated Identity;49
9.5;CardSpace;52
9.6;Microsoft ID Card;54
9.7;Real ID;56
9.8;Implications of Different Identity Management Systems;58
10;5. Defeating the Greatest Masquerade;60
10.1;Web Spoofing and Scams;60
10.2;Third-Party Assertions of Identity;63
10.3;Proving Identity Through Personal Disclosure;66
10.4;Signaling Identities;67
11;6. Secrecy, Privacy, Identity;71
11.1;Laws of Identity;73
11.2;Privacy as Spatial;74
11.3;Data Protection;77
11.4;Autonomy;78
11.5;Property;79
11.6;Sign on the Virtual Line;80
12;7. Security and Privacy as Market Failures;83
12.1;Economics of Security;86
12.2;Economics of Privacy;88
13;8. Trusting Code and Trusting Hardware;92
14;9. Technologies of Identity;95
15;10. Anonymous Identifiers;98
16;11. Digital Signatures;107
16.1;The Public Key Infrastructure;108
16.2;End Note: What Are Public Keys;113
17;12. Strengths and Weaknesses of Biometrics;115
17.1;Introduction;115
17.2;Identification and Verification;116
17.3;Overview;116
17.4;Three Basic Elements of All Biometric Systems;117
17.5;Enrollment;117
17.6;Templates;118
17.7;Matching;118
17.8;Template Management, Storage and Security;119
17.9;Biometric Applications;122
17.10;Mainstream Biometrics;123
17.11;Classifying Biometric Applications;126
17.12;Salient Characteristics of Biometrics;128
17.13;Biometric Conclusions;130
18;13. Reputation;131
18.1;Proving Identity Through Social Networks;131
18.2;Functions and Authentication in P2P Systems;133
18.3;Peer Production and Identification;142
19;14. Scenario I: Your Credentials Please;146
19.1;Introduction;146
19.2;The State of Identity;146
19.3;The Path to Today;149
19.4;The Technology and Policies;151
19.5;Closing;151
20;15. Scenario II: Universal National Identifier;153
20.1;Introduction;153
20.2;The Path to Today;155
20.3;Motivation: Terror and Fraud;155
20.4;Early Efforts;156
20.5;A National ID System;157
20.6;Phase-in;158
20.7;The Technology and the Policy: Privacy Protection;160
20.8;Trust and Administration;162
20.9;The Future of UID;162
21;16. Scenario III: Sets of attributes;164
21.1;Introduction;164
21.2;The Evolution of Identity;164
21.3;How IDs are used in 2040;165
22;17. Scenario IV: Ubiquitous Identity Theft;167
22.1;The State of Identity;167
22.2;The Path to Today;169
23;18. Closing;175
24;19. References and Further Reading;177
25;20. Index;184
25.1;A;184
25.2;B;184
25.3;C;184
25.4;D;184
25.5;E;184
25.6;F;184
25.7;I;184
25.8;L;184
25.9;M;184
25.10;P;184
25.11;R;185
25.12;S;185
25.13;T;185
25.14;V;185