Basically, there are two ways to deal with identity theft: Make personal information harder to steal, and make stolen personal information harder to use. We all know the former doesn’t work, so that leaves the latter. If Congress wanted to solve the problem for real, one of the things it would do is make fraud alerts permanent for everybody. But the credit industry’s lobbyists would never allow that.
Wired on Identity Theft
11 June 2008
28 May 2008
Perhaps these three companies really do believe that digital delivery will usher in a brand new democratic, infinite-arcade era of gaming. But let’s not kid ourselves. The reason that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are so excited about digital delivery is that it represents a future in which one company — them — has absolute control over the sole content distribution channel. And that’s a future we should be very worried about.
Wired on Digital Delivery
20 April 2008
Pre-med students may be victims of a broken system. Medical school admissions should be competitive, but the standards have become so stringent that scholars must nearly abandon their individuality to ceaselessly study. Perhaps, instead of separating the brightest students from the rest, pre-med programs weed out all but the few who are willing to give everything up — hobbies, athletics, even their curiosity — for the sake of a high-paying job as a body mechanic.
Wired on Pre-med Students