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February 01, 2006
The Boston Globe has reported that it distributed the names and credit card numbers of some of the 240,000 subscribers who pay for the Globe and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette by credit card....people like me. This was not an online security breach. No, the paper the Globe used to wrap bundles of this Sunday's newspapers had the information printed on the back of them. If you were trying to come up with ways to shake our trust in the daily paper, this wouldn't make it onto the list only because it is too outrageous and absurd even to contemplate. [Tags: boston globe media] Posted
by D. Weinberger at February 1, 2006 09:01 AM
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I have a story along this line. When Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was murdered, the second part of Haaretz was already printed. Of course, they had to edit and print it again before publishing the newspaper. In the following weeks, they used the unpublished second part as a wrapper and I kept one copy. Now I have an evidence of what might have been had Rabin was not murdered.
Posted by: Hanan Cohen | February 2, 2006 01:57 AM
There are three types of articles in newspapers. The truth, the half-lies and complete lies. Truth is a date, half-lie is a weather prediction and all others are complete lies.
Posted by: Novak Petr | February 4, 2006 12:37 PM
It is a fact of life that the weakest link is the human being. I would be willing to bet that someone who makes close to minimum wage, did something he didn't mean to and made a big blunder. I would be really concerned if instead of a bunch of papers some hacker got into their computer system and shared the information with a million of his closest friends ... Now that would be scary!
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