Is it that hard to find out who did the card processing for 1st Bank?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Walsh</b> <<a href="mailto:cwalsh@cwalsh.org">cwalsh@cwalsh.org</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:41:37AM -0400, B.K. DeLong wrote:<br>> Well, whomever it was will probably get wacked with a HUGE fine for
<br>> violating PCI Security standards. I'm guessing it won't take long to<br>> determine who falls under approved card processors for Visa.<br><br><br>They might get fined, but not buy Visa. Too much butter on that bread
<br>to throw it in the bin.<br><br>The FTC, OTOH, may do some enforcement:<br><a href="http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/06/prediction.html">http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/06/prediction.html</a><br><br>
Visa has been zealously guarding the "privacy" of these processors since<br>at least December of 2005, when the Sam's Club stuff started to hit the<br>fan. Even Gartner called MC and Visa out on it:<br><a href="http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/12/gartner_to_visa.html">
http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/12/gartner_to_visa.html</a><br><br>Chris<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>B.K. DeLong (K3GRN)<br><a href="mailto:bkdelong@pobox.com">bkdelong@pobox.com</a>
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