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Message-ID: <200403181603.AA540082418@tecman.com> From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy ) Subject: Emailing SSN info Tony Gettig wrote: >Higher management wants to >email a zipped data export (presumbably password protected) to a vendor >that includes the Social Security Number for employees. Yes, it's a bad idea. Even if it is password, it can be cracked, just a matter of time. If managment insists on this course, at least encrypt it with PGP or S/MIME. -- Curt Purdy CISSP MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- Former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke --
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