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Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)
From: Adi Linden <adil () adis on ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:59:08 -0500 (CDT)
If your child borrows your credit card, and makes lots of unathorized charges, you may not have to pay more than $50; but the bank can go after your son or daughter for the money. Most parents end up paying, even if they didn't authorize their children to use the credit card.
So the credit card company calls you and asks about a bunch of suspicious charges being placed on you card. Ok, just keep on charging. Now who's to blame for these charges by your sons and daughters and the russian mafia? I sell a client a metered product (gas, water, electricity, telephone, internet data, etc). I notice unusually high consumption. I inform the client that the bill is accumulating rather quick and I suspect a problem. I have done my job. The client either tells me to stop delivery until the problem is diagnosed and resolved or tells me to continue service. Either way, the ball in in the clients court. If the client chooses continuation of service despite high consumption and subsequent huge bill he has an obligation to pay, no matter WHY the usage was to high. Our society has a screwed up sense of responsibility. Everyone else is supposed to look out for me and take care of me. If something happens to me because I do something stupid or foolish someone failed to warn me, didn't make the sign big enough, didn't sound the horn loud enough, didn't lock me up so I couldn't hurt myself. This isn't true for everybody but way too many.... Adi
Current thread:
- RE: Even you can be hacked, (continued)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Henry Linneweh (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked David Schwartz (Jun 11)
- Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Sean Donelan (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Jonathan Nichols (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Jonathan Nichols (Jun 11)
- OT Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Peter Galbavy (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Michael Painter (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Adi Linden (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) Henry Linneweh (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Paul Vixie (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Petri Helenius (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Adi Linden (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Paul S. Brown (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Adi Linden (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Geoincidents (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be Mark Kent (Jun 12)