This was an interesting chapter. The main thing that stuck out to me was how easy it is for your credit report to get messed up but how hard it is to get it fixed. The example of Steve and Nancy really made me think a lot. I am looking to take advantages in different countries upon graduation and I could only imagine the bits and pieces of information that I would not receive due to either the postal service not forwarding certain materials or companies or people not being willing to pay the postage on international mail. Knowing my luck I would be in the same boat and get a lien placed on my house because of an administrative error that is of no fault of my own. I know of people that go overseas and lose touch with what is going on in America much less what mail you are not receiving.
I also found it interesting about the creation of IBM being from a man that made taking a census easier. That was a handy piece of knowledge that I did not know. (sorry, I know that was random)
The other thing that stuck out to me about the chapter was the advent of the Social Security number. I had no idea that every number carried information and didn't have a check number at somewhere in it to help verify information.... Made me kinda lose faith in my SSN as being a good way to keep your information safe.
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