In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 20:38:44 on Fri,
18 Jan 2008, Simon Howarth <[log in to unmask]> writes
>What?s going on?!
SNAFU, in the literal sense. It's just that in the current climate there
are more reports of these things getting into the press.
I remember years ago, one of the Big Four banks started faxing [a slow
dribble of internal documents containing] confidential account details
to my workplace. Frustratingly, we couldn't get anyone to take our
reports seriously over a number of weeks (it was more the "junk fax"
aspect that annoyed us at the time). Eventually I think I took some of
them round to a local branch and insisted on explaining it to the
manager (even though his branch wasn't one of the directly guilty
parties). Turned out, as we expected, that someone had the wrong fax
number noted down somewhere, and the only 'authentication' on the
transfers was that when they dialled, a Fax machine replied.
Today that sort of incident would probably be sent straight onto the
newspapers - complaining about the "leak", the possibility of "identity
theft" and so on.
--
Roland Perry
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