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Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
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 [email protected])
If one really set ones mind to it, I guess that grepping through mailing
list archives for addresses, and using a webcrawler to search for MAILTO=
would lead to many thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of addresses.
On the plus side, the search engine will not let "*","\*","?*" and so be
used, and there are no real matches for "root", apart from stuff like
"Bob Root" etc.
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