impersonator

Why was he on twitter at the same time the impersonator was? I don't know."

Maybe I should get a Vincent Price impersonator to do the voice over for my next demo.

By rights a funambulist should be a John Cleese impersonator ...

This will let your app ensure that it is talking to the correct server, and not an impersonator.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, there is no official version at the moment and that is an impersonator.

I saw a Superman impersonator on the Strip in Vegas, and would have no problems calling that person the Man of Steel.

It's the same as a Vegas wedding with an Elvis impersonator. Different strokes for different folks.

The statement to the public is the same as the statement to the alleged impersonator. Given the context, it seems very likely that most people would have expected Sell to say "no."

There is also the networking, the impersonator will be the one making friends at harvard. After that he only needs to say that he dropped out and doesn't have the tittle, but the conections are there.

I'd be interested to know how much data someone would need to build a successful keystroke-impersonator. And then where would they capture that data?

They are probably trying to figure out if you are who you say you are by asking all kinds of questions that you know the answer for and an impersonator would struggle with. Not condoning they behavior, just pointing out.

What your describing is closer to someone using your hair style / an Elvis impersonator walking around and generally those on not considered a crime. Your credit score is a finite resource your haircut is not.

This may come off as jokative, but the people that are tricked could always ask for a picture of the person with a newspaper or a love note for proof that they are talking to the actual person, and not just some impersonator. Personally, I can't get past the fact of falling for someone online.

Australia's favorite standover-man impersonator on yc - well, there you go!

If your first time hits a malicious impersonator, you're shit out of luck. Furthermore, the impersonator could "tack" its own malicious certificate for some lols when you actually get to talk to the actual target.

And even when the victim acquired a new SSN, the impersonator was able to obtain it shortly thereafter. Victims of employment fraud often must deal with the Internal Revenue Service because IRS records show they are under-reporting their wages."

It's p2p, hard to shutdown, hard to fraud since logins don't rely on flimsy passwords so you know you are not trading with an impersonator, escrow can be used and market decides what the price people are willing to exchange bitcoins for.

But in some ways relying on a possibly-hostile CA is worse: if the software doesn't really give the user any visibility of key changes, then the impersonator won't even need to social-engineer the recipient with "whoops I lost my key". Instead, the duped recipient will just see "Signed by Big Trusted CA" with a shiny green padlock, and will think everything is fine, even though the key under the hood has changed.