The password today is ‘pretext’ State, federal bills might impose sentences on impostors
The Hewlett-Packard scandal has taken a word from the film noir world of the private eye, pretexting, and put it into a bright spotlight. In the process, the affair could help criminalize the activity as well.
Pretexting, a practice long used by detectives and others, has increasingly come under fire by lawmakers and privacy advocates.
