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Re: Re: choice-point screw-up and secure hashes
From: Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists () vanscherpenseel nl>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:25:01 +0100
On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:36, Kurt Seifried wrote:
The sad part is there is NO (Zero, Nada, Zilch) incentive for companies to treat this data securely. Information for a hundred thousand people is stolen. So what? The company is not criminally liable in any way (I haven't heard of any laws yet). Civilly they're barely liable either. It'll be more of the same until we have laws with penalties for allowing theft of customer data. To bad insurance won't work, when a physical item is stolen it costs money to get a new one, and insurance companies won't pay out unless you took due care/diligence, OTOH if you steal all the electronic data (and even erase it) a company just restores from a backup and goes on with life.
Don't forget that it's bad for the company's image to have confidential customer data stolen. As soon as the press catches on it's bad for business. So, companies *do* have a drive to secure your private data. - Vincent van Scherpenseel -- http://vincent.vanscherpenseel.nl/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://www.secunia.com/
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