On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Bill Cole wrote: > At 6:06 PM +0000 2/26/02, Dale Therio imposed structure on a stream > of electrons, yielding: > > >I think I might actually post my story on slashdot to see where it > >goes from there. > > Do it. /. gets read by a far wider audience than the people posting > to it, and it would be very hard for this to stay quiet in the > broader media if it got significant /. traffic. You might not get it > to progress to anything more mainstream than ZDNet or CNet, but you > have a real shot at attracting their interest and they get read by a > LOT of people. > > >If we do this together, especially since these are both banks, that > >should be able to get some interest going on how the big guys pick > >on the little guys. > > Absolutely. It is also an example of severely stupid IT management at > 2 large financial institutions. This is a major security risk, and it > appears that both of these places are simply ignoring their problem.
Be sure to make it out to be a "security issue". Emphasize how it is causing confidential data to be sent outside their companies. This is what people want to hear (it's scary to the customers...) > > Hmmm... I wonder what they meant by that? They don't work with > companies serving the gay community? I'm sure that's something their > PR folks want spread widely. I would post the actual email quote, and the name/position of the person who sent it. That ought to get their attention... -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
