Re: [Sheflug] Re: bounce

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:12:29AM +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > It has everything to do with it from the bank's point of view; the
> > cracker most likely got in through exactly that broadcast medium.  It's
> > much safer than physical entry, and can be automated.  Maybe even with
> > help from the government or ISPs, as Richard would have it.
> 
> What stops a company from running their database server on the same
> machine as a web facing httpd installation? So you post them your details
> via snail mail and they get taken anyway. Once the company has your
> details it is out of your hands IMO. They might like to take their
> database and email it to their friends, you can't stop them.
> 

I'm not too sure about the American legal system here, but within
Europe you could probably sue under the Data Protection Act. If you
can prove that it ain't reasonably secure to put a database on the same
physical machine as the web host (and we all know it ain't) then they're
not protecting your personal details fairly.

A.D.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.