[Boatanchors] How Easy Is It?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Some of you may have heard, or seen, the story about a month ago about the AOL
employee who sold 90 million subscriber names to a Vegas casino owner for
$100,000. The owner immediately resold the information worldwide. The AOL
employee was fired, probably facing prosecution. AOL insists that the security
of all subscribers sold was not 'compromised', naturally.	
	
That one single act put the names and addresses of 90 million people on the
lists of spammers, hackers and so forth in minutes once the casino owner in
Vegas sold them. You can count on it that others who got the info either resold
or otherwise distributed it also.  	
	
I do not believe, personally, that the words 'security' or 'privacy' exist in
reality on the internet. We all take our chances.