[ale] Customer data not our problem

Robert Reese ale at sixit.com
Sat Mar 13 14:13:00 EST 2004


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On 3/12/2004 at 5:18 PM Bob Toxen wrote:

>American Airlines and Verizon are part of the latest trend of e-commerce
>companies putting fine print in their "Terms of Use" that states that if
>a security breach on their systems cause compromise of customer data
>that they are not liable:
>
>    
>http://security.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=110879&t=6&a=Security
>
>Thus, if they use, say, an unsecured unpatched Windows IIS web server and
>1,000,000 customer credit cards get compromised and falsely billed, the
>companies could not be sued.
>
>Read the fine print and take your business elsewhere and tell them
>why you are!

Let's not forget CAPPS II, either.  What a bad combination: disregard for
the customer information that they are so willing to hand over to Big Bro..
I mean, Big Bush, and then trying to protect themselves from the damage
they caused.

Cheers,
Robert~

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