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30 Jan 2013
Last week I
blogged about the way that lots
of otherwise legitimate companies leak e-mail addresses to spammers.
Here's a few more thoughts.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/moreleak.html
20 Jan 2013
Acronis is a company that sells backup software. They have been
around for over a decade, and have lots of big respectable customers.
The Wall Street Journal is the nation's leading business
newspaper.
Equifax is one of the big three national credit bureaus.
Shelfari is a book interest web site owned by Amazon.
The Economist is a globally influential newsweekly.
Airliners.net is a popular photosharing site for airplane
enthusiasts.
What do they have in common?
They all leaked my address to spammers, and none of them
have ever accepted any responsibility.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/leaky.html
07 Jan 2013
In the
previous
installments
we looked at software changes in mail servers, and in
the software that lets user mail programs pick up mail.
What has to change in the user mail programs?
Keeping in mind that I am far from a usability expert
(my ideal interface is a model 33 Teletype), there are
a few things that I can describe without going into the
details of exactly how they would look.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/i18neai3.html
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