INTROIt’s not difficult to predict the future. Just scan today’s headlines and extend the trends: climate change,energy depletion, terrorist threats, government surveillance, ethnicstrife, weapons proliferation, genetic engineering, corporate ethicsand so on.Yet on an individual level, there’s an issue that’s perhaps even moredisturbing: identity theft.In an era of security paranoia, every aspect of our lives will berecorded: from DNA to IQ; from official documentation to privatefinance; from medical history to psychological profile.When that information is hacked or erased, it will be the innocentvictim with no credentials who’ll be labeled a security risk...