From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 05:53:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960427162824.00ab39d4@mail.teleport.com>
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At 02:12 AM 4/27/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
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>If you are involved with the affairs of a large organization, I urge you
>to check www.whoswhere.com to see if they have a bunch of user email
>addresses that they shouldn't.

They also have some information that is seriously outdated.  They have two
e-mail addresses for me that are about 2-3 years out of date.  (I wonder how
some of this information was collected.  One was from my Fidonet point
address of years back.  Not something accesable from finger.)

>Of course there is little that one can do about this kind of invasion of
>privacy. But they don't have to be so fucking blatant and stupid about it.
>They have the email addresses of DAEMONS from our password files in their
>database.

I wonder if those addresses are from a "finger @sitename.org" hack.  It
becomes worrysome when the methods of hackers intersect with those of
database compilers.

>There is no need for mailbombing, or anything like that. Our lawyers are
>simply going to nuke them from orbit. Please check them out before they go
>offline, so that you will have a shot at whatever is left.

Keep us informed as to the fireworks.  it will be fun to watch.

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