Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file

[Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>]

Gus wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Sentiono Leowinata wrote:
> 
> > I wonder how they can get the e-mail address? Our finger daemon are
> > blocked. Many un-broadcast e-mail addresses (the account never send any
> > e-mails to anyone) are in the database. How?
> 
> It's a sad fact that many unscrupulous(sp?) writers of WWW pages use
> non-visilble "on load" HTML to record what the web browser thinks the
> email address of the person browsing the page, and, I presume sell this
> info to the junk email producers.
> 
> Part of the WhoWhere archives could have come from such sources. (personally
> my address in netscape is stop.stealing@addresses.you.CENSORED)

  We go to great pains to keep from revealing your e-mail address to
a web site.  Several of the fixes in 2.01 were for these sorts of problems.
Given a current version of Netscape Navigator, how would a spam-king
steal your e-mail address from his web page?

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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