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1996-04-29 - Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer’s passwd file

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Gus <angus@bmsysltd.demon.co.uk>
Message Hash: 9219c74e34177e044bc44d7b32903ceddd684cd4f551bf676d3c420900b396bc
Message ID: <318492FE.6AF7@netscape.com>
Reply To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960427180844.11803B-100000@bud.peinet.pe.ca>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-29 17:21:14 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 01:21:14 +0800

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 01:21:14 +0800
To: Gus <angus@bmsysltd.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960427180844.11803B-100000@bud.peinet.pe.ca>
Message-ID: <318492FE.6AF7@netscape.com>
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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

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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