On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:35:56AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 6/29/06, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I don't know how likely that is, but there is no technical reason why > >this should ever be a requirement, which means that if this is > >happening, it would be either malicious or ignorant. > > You forgot "apathetic". A lot of organization know they play fast > and loose with customer data, but just don't care. Or, at least, > don't care enough to do something about it. Sometimes they feel a > little bad, I guess.
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt with 'ignorant' -- but I consider known issues exposing customer data to be malicious insofar as they are not holding up their end of customer expecations. Regardless of the reason for that being "We would like to expose your data" or "we don't care if we expose your data", as a customer, the difference is null: if you know my data is being exposed, and you don't do anything about it, you're just as much at fault as if you do it on purpose. -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
