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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 20:37:43 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > I've looked at my MOCPages pages and couldn't find anywhere where this
> > > address is displayed.
> > >
> > > Has anyone heard anything about MOCPages being harvested for spam?
> > >
> > > Derek
> >
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> " 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. "
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> 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.
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 various acquisitions happened.
feedback (at) mocpages.com is where feedback is solicited and I've sent mail
there alerting Sean of this thread. Hope that helps. Hope it is fixed.
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| (...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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