The auditor for Hotels.com is Ernst & Young, and one of their staff working on the audit had their laptop stolen from their car, compro­mising the credit card data of approx­i­mately 243,000 customers. These things will happen, but what I don’t under­stand is whether they’re just assuming whoever stole the laptop is going to be […]

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A story in the New York Times about your friendly neigh­borhood wireless thieves. I have to admit I’m guilty of this when I’m not at home, but it pretty much does serve you right if you don’t secure your network. Maybe municipal wi-fi will cut down on this “phenomenon”… Edit: If only Twitter were invented […]

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