About privacy

[Crusader3000]

Who know registrars that not want account verifycation ? I am not want send my passport anybody and I not want anybody see my name, family, telephone and mail. Registrars support can use my passport in black works, anybody can send me spam or can call in my telephone. When I sell domain, not all registrars change personal information. I am not want pay for privacy, I am want free privacy and cheap domains. How do you protect your privacy ?
P.S. Sorry my bad english please.

 

[N-A]

Sure there are certain security measure that can be taken, like watermarking. However assuming that watermarking your documents make them tamper proof is a false sense of security. Yes it might deter some people and add an additional level of security but it can still be tampered with, depending on the skills set of the criminal.

Just did a basic Google search now, this is what I found on the top listed results (dont know if they work or not but it seems it can be done)

http://www.webinpaint.com/how-to-remove-watermark-from-photo

http://www.theinpaint.com/inpaint-how-to-remove-watermark-from-a-picture.html

Those only work if the watermark is transparent, something I should have defined as that's what you generally think of.

Nothing is requiring you to make the opacity level of a layer 70% so you can see through the text to the image below. Mine are done in solid red lettering. There is no way they can be removed, and absolutely no way the original image can be tampered with. No other company in their right mind would accept these watermarked images either. (i.e. if it has DropCatch 12/2/2016 written all over it 10 times in different sized font randomly placed).

The only thing that one can do is hire a document forger and forge a new document with the information they see in the image. However, as I stated from the beginning, they already have this information from when I signed up... why wait to do it when they could just do it anyway?

The story doesn't stack. As far as I'm concerned, it seems like they falsified their information and don't want to share it, period. Not a person I would want to conduct business with.

 

[Dun]

Thank you. I am not criminal, I am paranoid. I am not have pages in social networks, but I must send my passport registrar when he block my account. It is not good for me.

Exposing your privacy is becoming a global thing. It takes time to realize that it's a chain of force that's imposed by a collaborative political authority all around the world nowadays.

Yes there's a massive number of people like you who don't like random strangers snooping on their personal life. I can further imagine that you don't like street peeps taking photo of yourself in public without your prior permission. If they did, you might have a sleepless night thinking of imaginary ways to reach out and grab that damned smart phone or camera and smash it to the ground with a banging sound. You might also kill any culprit involved if it feels ok to secure your personal barrier.

You're totally paranoid when it comes to exposing your identity. You may also have little to no real presence on the social networking pages. Even if you do, you do it consciously.

But I'm sure it's about trust for you. For example, I can tell that you would trust a payment processor asking to submit your identification documents than trusting any registrar or company out there asking the same. So what's the difference? For you I guess it's the way how their security system is implemented. You would accept smooth transition than total service block from them which might force you to reject any further proceedings.

However, you might simply be a political activist protecting your family from political harm by just leaving un-linkable traces to your holy den.

Whatever is your reason, I find an excuse for you, because you're not alone who feels the same about this nagging issue. It's not that simple to cover its entire ramifications in here though.

Believe me when I say that big institutions including information harvesters, credit cards processor to little e-commerce sites know almost everything about your true identity. But sometimes they're forced to scare their clients by explicitly asking for copies of their ID papers.

Sounds like your daily horoscope huh? My usual ranting

 

[Dun]

 

[Kate]

I always watermark document scans too, when I really have to send them. I always put the name of the recipient on it. I am reluctant too, because such documents can be used for ID theft, for example opening bank accounts, taking loans... It's not that I don't trust businesses, but in fact I don't trust them. The problem is the lack of IT security. It's only a matter of time until they get hacked and their data is exposed in the open.
Do you think you have a chance in this day and age, when even the OPM couldn't secure sensitive data ?

If you send the documents online, the odds are they will remain digitally stored in a file or E-mail.
What I prefer to do is send by post, then it is likely that they will throw the document away as soon as the account is verified, or keep it offline (in a file cabinet). They can still scan it, but it takes a manual effort.

I once had a watermarked scan notarized by a high-ranking official at the local US embassy. Accepted in a heartbeat.