full-disclosure - Is the Bottom Line Impacted by Security Breaches?

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Date: Thu Sep 29 01:58:56 2005
From: kurt.buff at gmail.com (Kurt Buff)
Subject: Is the Bottom Line Impacted by
	Security	Breaches?

Frank Knobbe wrote:
<snip>

> Perhaps you should ask:
> "If 40 million customer social security numbers are exposed in a
> security breach at the credit card processor CardSystems, why do a
> significant number of people not request new social security numbers?"
> 
> After all, there is no limit on liability with fraud on those....
> 
> Regards,
> Frank

Easy - you can't get one, so asking won't help.

Unless, of course, you're under the protection of the Federal Witness
Relocation program.