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shared by Meta Arcon on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached

With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married.
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Normally one of the most intimate moments two people can share, the marriage had taken place from opposite ends of the globe over the video chat program Skype
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These are called proxy marriages, a legal arrangement that allows a couple to wed even in the absence of one or both spouses.
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Such convenience has also raised concerns that it will facilitate marriage fraud — already a challenge for immigration authorities — as well as make it easier to ensnare vulnerable women in trafficking networks.
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All people applying for American citizenship through marriage must first be interviewed by officials from the Homeland Security or State Department who are charged with rooting out fraud. Officials said that if the spouses were to explain they had been married thousands of miles apart over the Internet, it would quite likely raise a red flag.
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shared by Neža Zidanič on 08 Mar 13 - No Cached

A recent television news report focused on the security of online banks following recent attempts to defraud Egg. For the average viewer it must have been scary stuff as the report appeared to demonstrate how relatively easy it might be for a hacker to infiltrate a computer and access passwords and other confidential information.
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In many cases, the situation is not as serious as the media make out.
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It is not that hackers are not an issue
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One important element of this is the security of the service itself. Although the consumer rarely suffers directly when online services are exposed, scary media stories do mean that everyone in the dot.com world has to work that bit harder to build the necessary trust.
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