Logan 5
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I don't personally use amazon but I feel BAD for the people who have or may be compromised by this....
Guess the Q/A people were on vacation when they programmed this?  |
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MrTangent
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| said by Logan 5  :
I don't personally use amazon but I feel BAD for the people who have or may be compromised by this....
I'm not sure having your email account found qualifies as being "compromised". It's unfortunate, but it's not like passwords or credit cards were given out. Let's put this in to perspective here.
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devrandom
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join:2003-06-28 | reply to Logan 5
Well as soon as this gets enough PR, it'll be fixed. For now I think Amazon would consider this bug a "feature".  |
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Logan 5
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said by MrTangent :
I'm not sure having your email account found qualifies as being "compromised". It's unfortunate, but it's not like passwords or credit cards were given out. Let's put this in to perspective here.
Email accounts can be and are spoofed all the time to make it look like your address is sending anything the spoofer wants. From viagra spam to male surgical 'enhancement', there's no telling what someone could unwillingly be a part of.
Plus let's also not forget that most sites send email confirmation of passwords, user account names & numbers and all manner of personal info when you register with them. All it takes is some embedded malicious code in an email sent to your address and just like that, you've installed a keylogger, or a trojan or something equally as bad.
It would hardly be trivial if the FBI knocked on your door one day with a warrant for your arrest for emailing kiddie porn that they had PROOF came from your account at your ISP....Be kind of tough to prove otherwise when they're holding the logs....
Yes, I think the article is in perfect perspective thank you. Those people had their privacy compromised and that's too bad for them. |
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MrTangent
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| said by Logan 5 :
Email accounts can be and are spoofed all the time to make it look like your address is sending anything the spoofer wants. From viagra spam to male surgical 'enhancement', there's no telling what someone could unwillingly be a part of.
Just because someone has your email account doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be able to spoof your address. If I were so inclined I could find most people's email addresses just by googling a few things about them.
said by Logan 5 :
Plus let's also not forget that most sites send email confirmation of passwords, user account names & numbers and all manner of personal info when you register with them. All it takes is some embedded malicious code in an email sent to your address and just like that, you've installed a keylogger, or a trojan or something equally as bad.
First of all, anyone who opens an attachment from someone they don't know is asking for it. Secondly, I'd like to see how your "malicious code" could be embedded in an email. The only way someone could "install a keylogger, or a trojan" would be if the recipient doubleclicks on the attachment. And if you're using Unix, Linux or Mac OS X like I am, the chances of infection are much less than with Windows.
said by Logan 5 :
It would hardly be trivial if the FBI knocked on your door one day with a warrant for your arrest for emailing kiddie porn that they had PROOF came from your account at your ISP....Be kind of tough to prove otherwise when they're holding the logs....
Now this is just nonsense. If you were arrested for supposedly emailing child pornography then they would do forensic tests on your hard drives. If no child pornography was found you would be released and an apology would be issued. Email spoofing isn't as perfect as you think it is. Sysadmins (and the FBI) have ways to show if an email is spoofed or not.
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