http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/01/peoples-bank-of-connecticut-90000-ssns-ups-transunion.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:33:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/01/peoples-bank-of-connecticut-90000-ssns-ups-transunion.html/comment-page-1#comment-1787 David T.S. Fraser Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:43:51 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1399#comment-1787 I expect they'll be looking at using encryption pretty quicly. A similar incident happened to ABN AMRO last month (See: <a href="http://www.privacylawyer.ca/blog/2005/12/incident-tape-containing-records-of-2.html" rel="nofollow">The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Incident: Tape containing records of 2 million mortgagors lost</a>). Luckily, the tape was found by DHL but the bank announced that it would switch to an encrypted link to transmit the info (See: <a href="http://www.privacylawyer.ca/blog/2005/12/handle-your-incident-well-and-good.html" rel="nofollow">The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Handle your incident well and good publicity may follow</a>). I expect they’ll be looking at using encryption pretty quicly. A similar incident happened to ABN AMRO last month (See: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Incident: Tape containing records of 2 million mortgagors lost). Luckily, the tape was found by DHL but the bank announced that it would switch to an encrypted link to transmit the info (See: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Handle your incident well and good publicity may follow).

]]> http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/01/peoples-bank-of-connecticut-90000-ssns-ups-transunion.html/comment-page-1#comment-1786 Chris Walsh Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:26:02 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1399#comment-1786 Can't be read w/out a mainframe? Just buy <a href="http://tinyurl.com/b5b7h" rel="nofollow">this tape drive</a> and then: hax0r@solaris%~ dd if=/dev/rmt/0 conv=ibm At this point, I don't think I want to know the format of these records, but I'm fearful I could find out by learning about everybody's favorite legacy technology, EDI. Especially the transaction sets pertaining to credit reports and mortgage applications. Is it *really* cheaper to do this via UPS compared to, oh I don't know, XML over an encrypted link? Can’t be read w/out a mainframe?
Just buy this tape drive and then:
hax0r@solaris%~ dd if=/dev/rmt/0 conv=ibm
At this point, I don’t think I want to know the format of these records, but I’m fearful I could find out by learning about everybody’s favorite legacy technology, EDI. Especially the transaction sets pertaining to credit reports and mortgage applications.
Is it *really* cheaper to do this via UPS compared to, oh I don’t know, XML over an encrypted link?

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