Re: Equifax Canada

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, R. DuFresne wrote:

> But are the worth of the data here merely relational to the cost of
> contacting those clients whose information was compromised?  Maybe to the

The value of the data to the custodian of the data is a lot less than it
is to the attacker or person who's data it is.

> company, but, I'm willing to bet the clients consider this data much more
> vauable then that, I would, and their costs, the clients is not yet
> ended, esepcially if their victims of identity theft...

Nope, their clients aren't really the folks they're keeping the data on...

> > It is true, they loose some credibility
>
> Which is another sense of the value and loss incurred in this case, an
> additional loss.

But it doesn't really matter to their clients.

Paul
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