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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:18:43 -0400
Sorry but I think responsibility is shared. I gave hotels.com my information with the belief they would protect it. They did not demand or audit the people they gave it to.
I will not use them again till they assure me that they and ALL their "agents" protect it.
Dave Begin forwarded message: From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart () pobox com> Date: June 2, 2006 1:44:57 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: RE: [IP] LAST TIME I USE HOTELS.COM djf Ernst & Young laptop loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers
Dave - I don't think it's appropriate to blame Hotels.com here - this is their outside auditing firm who lost the data.Just about everybody major corporation uses one of the Big N auditing firms
(I think N is down to 3 now?)While this shouldn't be as embarassing to E&Y as Enron was to Arthur Anderson, it's still a real concern that they're not more careful with customer data.
At minimum they ought to be using encrypted disk drives for all of that. Thanks; Bill Stewart ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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