[31778] in bugtraq
Re: Privacy leak in VeriSign's SiteFinder service #2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo van der Kooij)
Wed Sep 24 22:13:54 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:26:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org>
To: "BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS. COM" <BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Mark Coleman wrote:
> More naughty Verisign deeds...
....
> This means that they can easily harvest the SOURCE email address field
> for marketing purposes (no typos there), and would have a strong
> educated guess of the correct domain of the mistyped TARGET.
Unfortunatly I found paper mail getting to me with an address that was
only used by a Veri$ign company and the address in this format was not
available through the WHOIS records. They sold my data without my consent.
That was the moment I decided to go to another register with my domain
info. So I think ill intend is not just suspected but must be considered
to be a real fact of life with Veri$ign
I for one have removed the Veri$ign root certificates and will inform
sites relying on them about the risk they take with Veri$ign and do advise
others to take smilar actions so we hurt them through their wallet.
Hugo.
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