Rich pickings for hackers

✍ Scribed by John Meyer

• Book ID: 104298484
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4048
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4048(98)90343-1

✦ Synopsis

have data protection rules, and this could include Email routed through these countries, even by accident. Neil Barrett, security expert at Bull Information Systems commented, "Companies are going to have to make sure that every item of data on their intranet does not end up on a foreign server. Or they need to take steps to protect the data being use din that country in a way that would breach the act." This could cause problems for users of US-based ISPs which process all their E-mail through a central US sorting ofhce before returning it to the UK. Barrett commented that IT managers are "woefully ignorant" of the amount of work the new law will generate.