Registering/Accounts with online vendors

[Michael]

I'd agree that companies should be far more careful with what employees
are given access to. Several jobs have just thrown open the gates (or had
no gates at all) to their data having just met me. One company comes to
mind because new employees that are just being trained are on their first
day given access to all customer data.. including full credit card
numbers. It's not just data that companies are careless with though. One
school I worked for had a master set of keys to every room on campus
including dorms, shower rooms, etc (and they had 99% female students) that
they'd just hand out to new employees and even service techs etc that were
there just for the day. It wasn't uncommon for sets of keys to turn up
missing. I can just imagine what the wrong person with a master key to a
girls school would do.

Don't dream it. Be it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, DCT Jared Smith wrote:

> >I think the "danger" of targeted marketing is vastly overstated.
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> <rant>
> At the present, yes. We shall not always be so blessed.
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> In a contracting situation, I worked briefly with a database of 275,000
> people who had visited one of the local riverboats in their first 9
> months of business. I was sorting and generating non-specific data
> (it was illegal to be more specific) but had access to all kinds
> of specific information about the individuals.
>
> I was surprised to see how many people had lost more than
> $10,000, and surprised to see a few people had lost well over
> $50,000. Data on the people who had only spent $1.00 were
> in the database, also. I considered every single name and
> address on that list to represent an easy 'sucker', well above
> average in their ability to do senseless things with money.
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> They would be sitting ducks, if I were so inclined as to take
> advantage of their weaknesses.
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> Fortunately, my motives are not financial, although I did keep
> a 'backup copy' of that database for a few years, before my
> conscience got the better of me, and I destroyed the data.
>
> While paranoia is no solution, being that it creates a whole
> new problem of its own, vigilant care is appropriate.
> </rant>
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> -Jared
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