Market mechanisms offer an interesting way to look at how things are valued. After all you can't argue with the laws of supply and demand.

Your online identity for instance is worth a measly $300, F-Secure found out. At least that what one online thug is asking for 380Mb of data that he collected from keystroke loggers.

30 Sep 2006

The data is bound to contain login names and passwords for email accounts and online banks, as well as the occasional credit card number. Plenty of candy for the average identity thief.

You would think that such data is valued at more than just $300. But you can't argue with the laws of supply and demand.

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