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Re: Has MOCPages been harvested for spam?
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:39:37 GMT
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Tim Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft wrote:
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> > I have an email address I uses exclusively for MOCPages. I just
> > received eBay account fraud spam directed to that email address.
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> > I've looked at my MOCPages pages and couldn't find anywhere where this
> > address is displayed.
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> > Has anyone heard anything about MOCPages being harvested for spam?
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> > Derek
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> Unfortunately all the thumbnail images contain you address in the URL (right
> click and select view image and look at the name of the file). I assume this is
> where they've been harvested from.
Now there's a serious design flaw. In fact the use of your email
address in this way appears to be contrary to the MOCPages privacy policy.
" We hate unsolicited e-mail just as much as everyone else. We will
never distribute, sell, or abuse your e-mail address. Period. As an
account holder, your e-mail address is used as your account name only so
that we can uniquely recognize you, and so that we can communicate with
you. "
This is definitely an abuse of the email address. It's not being used
to recognize me or communicate with me. A unique id or hash could
easily have been used instead of email addresses for this purpose.
Derek
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| (...) It would take a little more development effort to do a hash, but ya. Ouch. I agree. Ouch. Not only that but it seems to vary across time, some of my creations have older email addresses embedded, presumably matching when I changed my emails as (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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