[privacy] Who's at fault?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070616/internet_camera
_070616/20070616?hub=Canada

Gass used to own a wireless security camera. Unfortunately, it is now installed in 
another family's house.  

Gass's former camera sends an e-mail image every time it senses motion.  

He was unsatisfied by the product and returned it to the retailer, but forgot to 
remove his e-mail address from its software.  

Someone else bought the camera, but apparently didn't put in their own e-mail 
address, so now the camera is sending him images from their house.  

Staples Canada said it warns stores to make sure this particular model of camera is 
fully erased before resale.  

However, retailer Tim Walker pointed the finger at Gass. "The onus is on him to 
make sure that camera had been  reset," Walker said ...


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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
[T]his was *magical*.  Ordinary men had dreamed it up and put it
together, building towers on rafts in swamps and across the
frozen spines of mountains. [...] They hadn't dreamed, in the way
people usually used the word, but they'd imagined a different
world, and bent metal around it.  And out of all the sweat and
swearing and mathematics had come this ... thing, dropping words
across the world as softly as starlight. - `Going Postal,' Pratchett
Dictionary of Information Security  www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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