[Sussex] Holiday

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Jon

On 05 September 2003 at 09:16 Jon Fautley wrote:
> However... lets take a step back and look at this...
> 
> You've just emailed a public list informing us that you're going on
> holiday. This is a list where most people have a few computers/bits of
> IT equipment that could be attractive to some of the more nasty people
> in society.
> 
> Also, apparantly approx. 80% of burglaries are committed by
> family/close friends of the victim (something that the sales manager
> at work just told me, unverified facts).
> 
> You have your work email address at the bottom of your email.
> 
> How difficult would it be for me to ask to see you, follow you home
> and then burgle your house? Not that hard, I fear...

Why work that hard.  For a small fee you can get access to the Electoral
Roll on line at 192.com.

> BTW, I have no intention of committing criminal acts to anyone on this
> list. I'm just amazed at the lack of security some people have
> (excluding windows boxes). I visited a potential customer yesterday,
> and they proceeded to be very cagy about information on their company.
> The MD then told us "We are very protective of our company
> information". I laughed as I managed to observe the PBX login
> passwords for a couple of their clients on the wall, in an email with
> the subject "Super secret password for PBX XXXXX at XXXXXX". They also
> left the room while I had a nose around on their laptop (I was only
> checking the spec, but they didn't know that).

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