On 6/29/06, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Given that most organizations follow explicit practices which conflict with customer expectations, that's kind of a tough nut to crack. Witness your average privacy policy, AUP, ToS, EULA, warranty, credit agreement, etc, etc.
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.
Absolutely. My point was just that malice is a lot easier to fight than apathy. Malice we general respond to with fines, imprisonment, or even death. If we applied those standards to apathy, we'd have to incarcerate most of the human race. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
