Economics of Identity Theft Book

1 Identity In Economics, And In Context 1

2 Modern Technological And Traditional Social Identities 5

3 Identity Theft 17

4 Who Owns You? 33

5 Defeating The Greatest Masquerade 49

6 Secrecy, Privacy, Identity 61

7 Security And Privacy As Market Failures 73

8 Trusting Code And Trusting Hardware 83

9 Technologies Of Identity 87

10 Anonymous Identifiers 91

11 Digital Signatures 101

12 Strengths And Weaknesses Of Biometrics 109

13 Reputation 125

14 Scenario I: Your Credentials Please 141

15 Scenario II: Universal National Identifier 149

16 Scenario III: Sets Of Attributes 161

17 Scenario IV: Ubiquitous Identity Theft 165

18 Closing 173

19 References And Further Reading 175

20 Index 183