Corporations can't get away with things they used to. HP honestly thought they could get away with identity theft; shoot, in news reports they were quoted as saying, "It was just pretexting," as if to dismiss it as unimportant. And today we read in the paper that the lowest guy on the totem pole, an investigator, was thrown under the bus for felony counts of identity theft for what HP said was "just pretexting".
No, you can't dismiss behavior like this anymore.
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In the words of DharmaDog: "it may or may not be utter horse@#$%&, but it shouldn't be dismissed simply because it doesn't agree with your opinion."
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Trying is the first step to failure. -- Homer Simpson