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Not that one wants this sort of information to be leaked of course, but it's hard to see information that is routinely copied by hotel desk clerks and which is written down on countless forms is deeply sensitive information that will cause dire outcomes if it gets out.

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You mean like your bank account number, which is constantly typed into online forms of all sorts of websites. Or your credit card number, which you probably say verbally into the phone to pay your bills?

Truth is, lots of extremely sensitive data exists in insecure states all the time.

For that matter, your bank account number goes on pieces of paper called checks that many of us give to individuals and companies all the time to pay bills.

So, yes, I draw a distinction between numbers that we hand out willy-nilly and truly sensitive information. There's a big difference between my checking account number and my health records.

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