No, I would not use a courier. On the other hand, it would be a simple matter to have encrypted the data on the tapes.
It is nothing less than "grossly irresponsible" to ship this type of data in an unencrypted format. John P Baker Software Engineer -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 07:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Banks >Anyone read about Citigroup blaming UPS for losing customer's information >for 3.9 million customers? I have this picture of someone tossing a >couple of tapes in a box and mailing them off without realizing how >important they were. That's not a fair comment. They seem to have taken reasonable precautions: "In the most recent incident, Citigroup executives say the box containing the tapes was handed over to U.P.S., along with other items for shipping, on May 2, under "special security procedures" that the bank required of the courier. One of those special procedures, said Citigroup's chief operations and technology officer, Debby Hopkins, included scanning the bar code on each package, rather than scanning only the single bar code on the shipment manifest, which is a summary document listing all the packages being moved in one shipment" What else would one do? Send a courier for each shipment? Bob Shannon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
