Comments on: Checking Back: the Clear Card for Jetsetters http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/checking-back-the-clear-card-for-jetsetters.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/checking-back-the-clear-card-for-jetsetters.html/comment-page-1#comment-74336 Nick Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:44:06 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=12852#comment-74336 Whoopsie! Clear's lost a laptop with potential customer data from 33,000 people, and, inexplicably, it was unencrypted: "In a written statement, Verified Identity Pass said most people affected were customers who had signed up online for the Clear program but who had not yet completed their enrollments in person. A "small number" of members who were in the process of re-enrolling were also affected." Leave it to a firm selling security to leave things unsecured. Apparently this isn't a terrible breach, but it sure is boneheaded. I wonder how much all those background checks and retina scans or whatever "biometric information" they collect would go for on the black market, had a full customer database been compromised... http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-clear0508aug05,0,4458701.story Whoopsie! Clear’s lost a laptop with potential customer data from 33,000 people, and, inexplicably, it was unencrypted: “In a written statement, Verified Identity Pass said most people affected were customers who had signed up online for the Clear program but who had not yet completed their enrollments in person. A “small number” of members who were in the process of re-enrolling were also affected.”

Leave it to a firm selling security to leave things unsecured.

Apparently this isn’t a terrible breach, but it sure is boneheaded. I wonder how much all those background checks and retina scans or whatever “biometric information” they collect would go for on the black market, had a full customer database been compromised…

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-clear0508aug05,0,4458701.story

]]> By: Piers Fawkes http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/checking-back-the-clear-card-for-jetsetters.html/comment-page-1#comment-73790 Piers Fawkes Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:07:43 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=12852#comment-73790 Thanks for the update! Thanks for the update!

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