[IP] more on LAST TIME I USE HOTELS.COM djf Ernst & Young laptop loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Sorry but I think responsibility is shared. I gave hotels.com my  
information with the belief they would protect it. They did not  
demand or audit the people they gave it to.

I will not use them again till they assure me that they and ALL their  
"agents" protect it.

Dave

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: June 2, 2006 1:44:57 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] LAST TIME I USE HOTELS.COM djf Ernst & Young laptop  
loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers

Dave - I don't think it's appropriate to blame Hotels.com here -
this is their outside auditing firm who lost the data.
Just about everybody major corporation uses one of the Big N auditing  
firms
(I think N is down to 3 now?)

While this shouldn't be as embarassing to E&Y as Enron was to Arthur  
Anderson,
it's still a real concern that they're not more careful with customer  
data.
At minimum they ought to be using encrypted disk drives for all of that.

	Thanks; Bill Stewart



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