Not a long time ago, I was installing some games on a friend’s portable computer, and I was amazed to find on his computer a copy of Libyana Mobile Phone Company’s client’s database, containing all kinds of very important information, to name a few: names, phone numbers, and addresses, I asked him: Where did you get this? He said: Everyone has it.
I found some people I know, and this just disturbed me, if they have to have it, they have to take care of it.
The other issue is the use of this database goes against all ethics, Islamic teachings, and it just disgusted me.
Please be aware that Libyana’s database contains more then 2 million users, that just make the concept of Information Security trash material in Libya. And they get paid 150 Dirhams per minute, what a waste of time, money, and what a risk we take giving our REAL information for those people.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:27 PM
صح النوم الخبر قديم وتقريبا ليه فوق من ستة شهور
October 16th, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Yeah, kinda old… i know a couple of people who already had it for a long time now.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:21 PM
yeah well at least this writer cared enough to tell us ,,,why do u think its normal to give away your information , they should keep the data safe
October 17th, 2009 at 4:35 AM
It was probably leaked by one of the employees.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Good point to discuss, yes it has been there for long time. but did we discuss it before, no one would care. Even with all Libyana customers were concerned with the leak of this data, the company didn't take any measures to answer public's questions about it?!
Sure we have long way as Libyans to fully understand what customer privacy means, and how it is a strong factor for businesses to care about. We still have the problem of social relations that get deep in business and I think it is the key to many other problems that we have to focus on to avoid such problems in future.
Thank you for bring this up
October 17th, 2009 at 9:39 PM
True, but I think it still a good point to mention this.
October 17th, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Good point, Thanks…
November 21st, 2009 at 11:10 AM
That is a shame, Libyana users should sue the company, this kind of behavior would not be acceptable in civilized countries.
Also note that the same happened with the PSTN database some time ago.
Security is very ill treated here, we still have a very long way to go.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:35 AM
Good point …but we don't care about this…!