{"id":354,"date":"2009-02-02T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-02-02T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:46:05","slug":"bush-grabs-new-power-for-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Bush Grabs New Power for FBI &#8211; old news new twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/news\/2004\/01\/61792\">Bush Grabs New Power for FBI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this is old news.\u00c2\u00a0 However I have to ask myself, what&#8217;s stopping a scam artist from using this?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem like it would be that hard for someone to walk into a bank, request your information, and walk out.\u00c2\u00a0 Or worse call them up, request the information, and have it faxed\/emailed to them.\u00c2\u00a0 Personally I think the email part would be more difficult because you couldn&#8217;t exactly tell them to send it to your gmail account.\u00c2\u00a0 But a fax number is easy enough.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the law also makes it illegal for you to talk to anyone about it.\u00c2\u00a0 You know family, friends, co-works, police, media etc.\u00c2\u00a0 So you&#8217;d never know about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the pefect\u00c2\u00a0 law that was ment to help &#8220;the good guys&#8221; that can easily be exploited by anyone with enough balls to try and pull it off, and after that they&#8217;ve got all the information they need to withdraw all your funds, and have them wired to a swiss bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Grabs New Power for FBI I know this is old news.\u00c2\u00a0 However I have to ask myself, what&#8217;s stopping a scam artist from using this? It doesn&#8217;t seem like it would be that hard for someone to walk into a bank, request your information, and walk out.\u00c2\u00a0 Or worse call them up, request the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-things-that-get-me-mad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}