, 2005-07-05
If there's one thing the security industry is really good at, it's pointing fingers. We all like to say that, "security starts with you," so that everyone can share a piece of the mud pie. While we're pointing fingers, let's look at a few groups and individuals and see how they can share the blame for their own insecurity - and prevent the spread of viruses, Trojans and worms.
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Just because it looks like a DOS screen doesn't mean there's no Internet connectivity. Likely that credit card isn't kept on the local machine. It's probably on a network server somewhere. What does that network server run? Windows or UNIX/Linux? And how do you feel about employees there having access to your credit card information? Granted, the YMCA is supposed to be a good, moral, upstanding organization. That's not to say that there aren't some bad apples. And there may be other computers that have access to your credit card number that DO run Windows on their campus.
Don't get your hopes up . . .
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