Last week, I was contacted by someone to update the payment processing
on their e-commerce site. The reason for the update is that the site
is not PCI compliant.

I spoke with the client for a while to get an idea of what was really
needed/wanted and quoted him a price. I will admit I padded the quote
quite a bit since I was going to be diving into someone else's code. I
have been bitten by this before and it has costs me a lot of money.

I started getting everything set up locally and noticed that not only
was this person storing credit card numbers and the 3 digit security
code in the DB, but the DB was on a shared host.

He sends me an email late Friday afternoon asking me to not start
working as it will cost more than he wants to pay (I had already put
in a few hours which he already said he will nto pay me for).

My question is, I know the credit card information this guy's
customers are supplying to him is not secure, do I have an ethical
obligation to report him?

-- 
Scott Stroz
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You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can
wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris

http://xkcd.com/386/

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