when I first saw how the hotel I was working at was saving credit card information of all their customers forever in plaintext (to charge them later), it appall

when I first saw how the hotel I was working at was saving credit card information of all their customers forever in plaintext (to charge them later), it appalled me. all it takes is one indecent employee to take that information and sell it, and then think of how many hotels there are in the world, almost all of them also saving this info. (this does not account for booking.com stuff where there is an in-between credit card to preserve your privacy)