[41525] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guess what I found...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julius Cisek)
Sun Oct 15 14:58:40 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Julius Cisek <jules@netscape.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 11:48:06 -0700
Donald M. Kitchen wrote:
> rryan@blackhills.com (Richard Ryan) writes:
> >Had my first hard core, proveable case of MSN reading someones drive. Store
> >Client had entered fantasy company name upon installing a program. Forgot about
> >it, didn't tell anyone. 2 days after downloading a simple text file from MSN a
> >junk mail offering from Pitney-Bowes showed up in his snail mailbox addressed
> >to him c/o the fantasy company. Somebody is playing somewhere they shouldn't
> >be. Any comments, Microsoft?
>
> I registered as Richard E. Graves (changing middle initials and adding an
> unnecessary suite number to your address are good ways to track who has
> been selling whom your address). Richard E. Graves also received mail from
> Pitney-Bowes.
>
> Microsoft says they don't sell their mailing lists. Clearly, someone has
> taken advantage of security holes in the NT servers that make up MSN and
> *stole* the mailing lists. Maybe unauthorized external access accounts for
> the abysmal performance of MSN, in part.
Hmmm... Did you guys check the box that says not to give your name out when
signing up? I did and I haven't gotten any junk mail yet. I've been using MSN for
half a year now. Of course if there is a security hole, then the checkbox would
hardly matter.
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