Information security, recycling and irony

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > Chris, yes, the toppers ordinarily don't have confidential info on them.
> > They are usually just a delivery list, nothing wrong with having toppers.  
> > 
> > In this case, the "toppers" were printed on recycled paper which
> > had the confidential info on the "previously used" side of the paper.
> 
> I understand that, but the problem is not in using recycled paper for
> toppers -- that is neither an image problem nor any other kind of issue,

I'm agreeing with you.  I just wasn't sure I had been clear enough about
how the info got out with the toppers. 

> and assuming proper treatment of confidential material (which is
> definitely *not* the case here) is actually good business. 

Yup.

> 
> My point was that using recycled paper for these kind of things is not a
> bad thing. The problem is only in the fact that a list of credit card
> numbers was recycled at all: 

Yesolutely.  :)

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> Christopher Schmidt
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