Thanks for the Draco education. ;-) One point I failed to mention is the question of why US companies should be overwrought by an EU regulation. This is still in the 'opinion' stage, but it was pointed out at SHARE that the data breach penalty is intended to protect EU citizens--wherever they might reside. Surely Equifax holds data on an untold number of EU citizens. That could make the company hugely liable even though it's a US company. How this might shake out in court is anybody's guess, but properly encrypting data is surely the best defense.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Would encryption have prevented known major breaches? Draco is the formal name of a constellation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(constellation) The laws Draco instituted included the death penalty for many crime. And if a fire breathing dragon breaths on you, you are toast. On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:43 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mike Schwab > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(lawgiver) >> Draco, law scribe who replaced informal oral laws with harsh written >> laws and a court system 650-600 BC, Athens, Greece >> >> > Interesting, I was misinformed about Draco (being a dragon per a > different post in this thread). > > > -- > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
