A number of restaurants are going to table side card readers (you simply slide the card into a portable reader, like the one McDonalds uses but battery operated) ) because they found staff using their camera phones to capture the credit card number, secret code and your signature.  Pretty scary stuff. Of course the crooks are faster than security because security is reactionary rather than proactive.  So now someone has made a device to down load the who table side reader onto a flash drive.

I hate to do this but I think I will have to back to carrying cash.

If your waiter starts asking things like, where do you live, etc. prior to swiping your card; then you may be buying more than lunch.

More and more I am finding that I have to check my cell phone, iPad, flash drives and Lap Top when I walk in the client's door. Wireless hot spots are also a huge risk in a company.  I was showing a client in a company  (un-named) a KeyNote® presentation and I mentioned a Facebook slide show a client of mine made of their extended vault install and he very easily gave me their wireless password so he could view it on my computer.

I said I could not do it as we are not allowed to use unknown wireless hot spots because I saw a risk there.  If something happened at that company could I become a suspect?  I wrote down the address and told him he could visit it after I left.

I was using "Go to Meeting" to meet with clients and also" Join Me" but it seems they could be a risk. Larry and Peter, do you think these on line meetings pose a risk. (Consider that I do not allow them to control my mouse?) 

Maybe the Luddites were right?


Hugh Smith
FIRELOCK Fireproof Modular Vaults
[log in to unmask]
(610)  756-4440    Fax (610)  756-4134
WWW.FIRELOCK.COM

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]