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Re: Secure Web Directory?
From: Joseph Tam <tam () MATH UBC CA>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:17:03 -0700
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Mujtaba Talebi wrote:
I have a feeling that our email addresses may get sold or shared to marketing companies who sell/share our email addresses to other firms.
Not a feeling, but reality. For example, one of these companies that hoover up addresses into sellable lists recently leaked 763 million addresses. https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#VerificationsIO They are by far not the only players in this space. You may even find some in your mail logs, poking and prodding with Rumplestiltskin attacks. If you use tagged bait addresses, you may even found which one did it. Joseph Tam <tam () math ubc ca>
Current thread:
- Secure Web Directory? Fisch, Neal (Mar 08)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? AIS (Mar 09)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Linc Nesheim (Mar 11)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Fisch, Neal (Mar 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Joseph Tam (Mar 13)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Benjamin Schwartz (Mar 14)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Mujtaba Talebi (Mar 14)
- Re: Secure Web Directory? Joseph Tam (Mar 15)