[ale] Customer data not our problem

[Geoffrey]

Bob Toxen wrote:
> American Airlines and Verizon are part of the latest trend of e-commerce
> companies putting fine print in their "Terms of Use" that states that if
> a security breach on their systems cause compromise of customer data
> that they are not liable:
> 
>      http://security.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=110879&t=6&a=Security
> 
> Thus, if they use, say, an unsecured unpatched Windows IIS web server and
> 1,000,000 customer credit cards get compromised and falsely billed, the
> companies could not be sued.
> 
> Read the fine print and take your business elsewhere and tell them
> why you are!

IANAL, but I believe that this Terms of Use will not hold water if you 
prove they were negligent.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft