Lifelock and Medicare (no, there's no connection)

[unixronin]

So much for Lifelock, the company that guarantees to protect you from credit identity theft, and whose founder has his social security number on the company website challenging people to try to steal his identity.  It turns out that so far, at least thirteen different people who have taken him up on his challenge have succeeded.

In entirely unrelated news, the Houston Chronicle reports that Texas doctors are leaving the Medicare system in droves because they cannot afford to provide Medicare services any more.  According to the Texas Medical Association poll, over 300 Texas doctors have stopped providing Medicare services over the last two years, including fifty in the first three months of 2010 alone, and more than 40% of the doctors in Texas are considering it.

Oh, and just for the heck of it ... a pop quiz, via writerspleasure.

Comments

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

Re: Lifelock: Would it be possible to charge the founder with facilitating identity theft? Since he seems to have enabled those thirteen people to use his name in stealing money from those companies...

Mind, I do not consider stealing-money-by-deception from those lying, thieving scum at AT&T to be a crime, a sin, or anything other than fair play by that company's own rulebook.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Good question. I'm not sure there's be any particular legal mileage in doing so, considering he already got fined $10M for deceptive advertising.