[Boatanchors] How Easy Is It?

[J. Forster]

I routinely get spam advertising 500,000,000 names and email addresses on a CD for
about $50.

-John

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

> 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.
>
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