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Originally Posted by Geary
While I have freezes with the big 3, I don't understand how this could possibly protect against hacking of their systems. It isn't like they don't have all your info .. they just won't pass it out freely (except during any period for which you've paid them for a temporary unfreeze).
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That's not the point.. The freeze prevents people who already stole your info from opening new accounts using that info... As long as you froze it, you got the PIN, they cannot do much. It's kinda of a race, freeze it first !