The most recent Facebook incident involved 1/4 million Facebook accounts that got listed on a new dating site without the user's permission. That's one way to kickstart your dating site membership (not).
Joe Gray W5JG On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > Interesting timing. I'm on an anti-spam list which was recently discussing > how to avoid getting your gmail password captured by the bad guys. My > contribution to that discussion was don't give your password to "neat" sites > that offer you you some cool feature... > > In case anybody isn't familiar with Facebook, they have a long history of > horrible privacy problems. Most (all?) of them are policy rather than coding > bugs. This event is typical, but far from limited to Facebook. There are > many Facebook-wantabe sites out there scheming for ways to get your password > so they can snarf your address book and spam all your friends and monetize > that data and ... > > Stanley... I assume you gave Facebook your yahoo password. As far as I can > tell, you are neither an idiot nor an asshole. You just got suckered by > Facebook. What did they offer you in trade? Did they cleanly explain that > they would harvest your address book and spam (er invite) all your "friends"? > > febo-John: Do you get any legitimate mail from Facebook? Can you block all > of their IP addresses? If yes, I'll see if I can find a list of their IP > address blocks. > > > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.