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Security Breaches Affect Privacy
How many email accounts exist at embassies and foreign ministries? Is the breach of 100 such accounts significant? It certainly is, especially if that number represents the tip of the iceberg. On August 31, 2007, Vnunet.com reports of the online posting of account data for more than 100 email accounts belonging to agencies such as the foreign office in Tehran, the Indian embassy in Washington and the British visa office in Kathmandu.
Dan Egerstad, the security consultant who discovered the information by accident, told vnunet that he did not access the accounts because he did not want to break the law. The implied failure of technical and administrative safeguards has major implications for confidentiality and privacy expectations as well as data protection laws. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
Sat, / Embassy Law Link