Comments on: Police blotter: Wells Fargo not required to encrypt data

Bank wins ruling in suit claiming its contractor should have encrypted customer data on computers that were stolen.

[datasecure]

Wells Fargo Sells old computers with information

Encryption is not as large as a problem as selling Terabytes of account and banking information that is found on all of their data processing equipment. They claim to erase the information but forensic experts state that computer files are never erased and can be restored using forensic tools. Does the encryption problem really matter?

[MVHarley]

Put you Data where your words are...

If these are facts, don't tease, post your facts!

Otherwise this could appear to be slander, unfounded hoax information.

MV Me

[davekern]

You can?t trust anyone ? can we? When will organization be held responsible

Corporate America will continue to do ?wrong things? until they feel enough financial pain or Congress does their job to insist that customer records and important data MUST BE ENCRYPTED or PARSED so that the data is un-usable to unauthorized individuals.
C-level decision makers deserve stiff fines and/or incarceration if they continue business as normal. Leaders must realize that their firm?s serious deficiencies will not be solved at the same levels and mindsets in which they were created.
It?s time to allow new technologies to cut costs and risks. Management should start taking initial steps to learn, explore and evaluate new ?user access? and ?data protection? technologies so they stop violating ?trusting? customers and shareholders.
Story after story will continue about computers being lost, stolen, and/or discarded with private customer information. Shockingly, with courts ?snubbing? unprotected customers because plaintiffs couldn?t produce actual financial losses is understandable ? but didn?t we learn from the hundreds of overlooked foreseeable security warning before 9.11?

[datasecure]

Wells Fargo Sells old computers with information

Encryption is not as large as a problem as selling Terabytes of account and banking information that is found on all of their data processing equipment. They claim to erase the information but forensic experts state that computer files are never erased and can be restored using forensic tools. Does the encryption problem really matter?

[MVHarley]

Put you Data where your words are...

If these are facts, don't tease, post your facts!

Otherwise this could appear to be slander, unfounded hoax information.

MV Me

[davekern]

You can?t trust anyone ? can we? When will organization be held responsible

Corporate America will continue to do ?wrong things? until they feel enough financial pain or Congress does their job to insist that customer records and important data MUST BE ENCRYPTED or PARSED so that the data is un-usable to unauthorized individuals.
C-level decision makers deserve stiff fines and/or incarceration if they continue business as normal. Leaders must realize that their firm?s serious deficiencies will not be solved at the same levels and mindsets in which they were created.
It?s time to allow new technologies to cut costs and risks. Management should start taking initial steps to learn, explore and evaluate new ?user access? and ?data protection? technologies so they stop violating ?trusting? customers and shareholders.
Story after story will continue about computers being lost, stolen, and/or discarded with private customer information. Shockingly, with courts ?snubbing? unprotected customers because plaintiffs couldn?t produce actual financial losses is understandable ? but didn?t we learn from the hundreds of overlooked foreseeable security warning before 9.11?

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[datasecure]

Bigger Problem

Wells Fargo recycles old computers with Terabytes of account and other banking information stored in disks and memory. Encryption is not as big of a problem as this information leak!

[Razzl]

Judge in the pocket of the big guys

"their expenditure of time and money was not the result of any present injury, but rather the anticipation of future injury that has not materialized"

This is how a judge throws a case in favor of Goliath. Any claims for mental pain, suffering, distress, etc., are always anticipatory--except, apparently, when one of your local chamber of commerce giants is the irresponsible party.

[Razzl]

Judge in the pocket of the big guys

"their expenditure of time and money was not the result of any present injury, but rather the anticipation of future injury that has not materialized"

This is how a judge throws a case in favor of Goliath. Any claims for mental pain, suffering, distress, etc., are always anticipatory--except, apparently, when one of your local chamber of commerce giants is the irresponsible party.

[davekern]

You can?t trust anyone ? can we? When will organization be held responsible

Corporate America will continue to do ?wrong things? until they feel enough financial pain or Congress does their job to insist that customer records and important data MUST BE ENCRYPTED or PARSED so that the data is un-usable to unauthorized individuals.
C-level decision makers deserve stiff fines and/or incarceration if they continue business as normal. Leaders must realize that their firm?s serious deficiencies will not be solved at the same levels and mindsets in which they were created.
It?s time to allow new technologies to cut costs and risks. Management should start taking initial steps to learn, explore and evaluate new ?user access? and ?data protection? technologies so they stop violating ?trusting? customers and shareholders.
Story after story will continue about computers being lost, stolen, and/or discarded with private customer information. Shockingly, with courts ?snubbing? unprotected customers because plaintiffs couldn?t produce actual financial losses is understandable ? but didn?t we learn from the hundreds of overlooked foreseeable security warning before 9.11?

[davekern]

You can?t trust anyone ? can we? When will organization be held responsible

Corporate America will continue to do ?wrong things? until they feel enough financial pain or Congress does their job to insist that customer records and important data MUST BE ENCRYPTED or PARSED so that the data is un-usable to unauthorized individuals.
C-level decision makers deserve stiff fines and/or incarceration if they continue business as normal. Leaders must realize that their firm?s serious deficiencies will not be solved at the same levels and mindsets in which they were created.
It?s time to allow new technologies to cut costs and risks. Management should start taking initial steps to learn, explore and evaluate new ?user access? and ?data protection? technologies so they stop violating ?trusting? customers and shareholders.
Story after story will continue about computers being lost, stolen, and/or discarded with private customer information. Shockingly, with courts ?snubbing? unprotected customers because plaintiffs couldn?t produce actual financial losses is understandable ? but didn?t we learn from the hundreds of overlooked foreseeable security warning before 9.11?