[Dataloss] Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data (fwd)

blitz blitz at strikenet.kicks-ass.net
Sat Feb 25 17:36:53 EST 2006


That goes down in the laugh book, with his proclamation of 
"unbreakable", as well. (McNealy)

You have only the privacy and security you demand and enforce!

If you declare something unbreakable, the best out there will indeed, 
'break' it, just to make an ass out of you.


At 12:21 2/25/2006, you wrote:

>: Meanwhile, Ernst and Young had a similar problem, including losing the
>: info for a client CEO (Sun's Scott McNealy).
>:
>: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/25/ernst_young_mcnealy/
>
>The article touches on the most amusing part:
>
>   Then again, the accounting firm could just stick with the "You have no
>   privacy. Get over it" line.
>
>This was said and widely discussed (laughed about) back in Jan of 1999 by
>Scott McNealy to reporters and analysts. It's a bit ironic that he would
>bring this incident up when talking about security. I sure hope someone in
>the audience shouted out his infamous quote.
>
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