The whole model of loyalty programs is how do we make them so hard to use that we can pretend we are giving people something when, in fact, we are not really. Enter the airlines. They give out frequent flyer miles for all kinds of things from actual airline tickets to anything that you buy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Scammers Figure out How to Fake Out Facial Biometrics Multi-factor authentication is not magic. For the most part, it is software. And if software is not well written, it can be fooled. That means that we should not be surprised if scammers try to use deep fakes and other techniques to fool automated facial recognition. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I can’t really blame Apple for this. Their heart was in the right place. Helping people find their lost stuff sounds like a reasonable goal. The problem is that no good deed ever goes unpunished. Initially, people bought an AirTag and then either slipped it into someone’s coat pocket or attach it to the back […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Quietly, the IRS was trying to reduce the billions of dollars a year in fraud from people who pretend to be you and me and do things like steal tax refunds. They did this by making it harder to pretend to be someone you are not, including using biometrics. Some people complained that people who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss banking world has always been secret. Very secret. Even after the U.S. worked out a deal to try and get information from the Swiss for tax evasion reasons, there is still not much transparency. Credit Suisse has had its share of troubles recently including helping wealthy customers evade taxes, engaging in illegal business […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Missouri Prosecutor Wisely Decides Governor is not Tech Smart Remember when the governor got his feeling hurt after a St. Louis newspaper revealed that the education department’s website was publishing the PII of tens of thousands of teachers and asked the Highway Patrol to prosecute the reporter who embarrassed him? The PII was, as a […]
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