-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Brian Loe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2/6/07, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> How bad has it gotten? >> >> "According to the bank group's survey of its members, 70 percent >> said their bank had to reissue credit or debit cards three times >> or more in the past 24 months." > >That's a fairly worthless statement, I've had mine re-issued twice. >Neither time was it due to a security breach of any kind. > >It's also a lame cause for more government oversight which can only >help to worsen the security landscape. Pressure for more and better >security should come from the bank's customers... Well, I assert that since you state that you have had your cards resissued twice in the past two years, that it -- in and of itself -- is pretty meaningless, too. :-) More and more, though, there is enough blame to go around: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/chrondatabreaches.htm It's still a sad commentary on the current state of affairs with regards to security, privacy, and e-commerce. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFFyQSAq1pz9mNUZTMRAtiFAKDbEHOOxQohcQVu/UvI48wlHrWxoQCg6X8C M/+poyayNoXzzR95ZJo9AUw= =qVMO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
