Privacy

Nowadays, privacy has become a something of utmost importance for most people. People are worried about their personal information being stolen -- and for good reason. With more and more companies storing customer data on servers that can be accessed via the Web, the possibility of someone stealing the data becomes greater. Most recently, Sony has had files containing personal information for its PS3 customers hacked. Not only did this include customer's personal information such as name and address, it also included customer's credit card numbers! The files that Sony was storing their customer's personal data in were simple XML files, and all of the data was stored as plain-text. It's quite surprising that, with all of the talk about privacy nowadays, Sony would be storing its customer's credit card information as plain-text XML files.