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join:2003-07-28
San Jose, CA | Heh Good Job, little slow though =\
I hope no one got my email =\ | |
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join:2003-10-12
Burnaby, BC
| Re: Heh $5 says that some spambot spidered the site and just recorded everyones  Soon enough your gonna get a email saying.
"Amazong needs you to update your records, because of a programming flaw in our network, our records also show that your account has a owing balance, blah blah"
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MrTangent
join:2001-12-28
Earth
| Re: Heh said by comm3  :
$5 says that some spambot spidered the site and just recorded everyones Soon enough your gonna get a email saying.
"Amazong needs you to update your records, because of a programming flaw in our network, our records also show that your account has a owing balance, blah blah"
or the famous
"GET 12 INCH'S ON YOUR PENIS"
Why would I want a 24 inch penis though?
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tippboogie
Bad Boy 4 Life
Premium
join:2001-12-13
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Heh LOL
Good one | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| dont care I just use junk disposable email addies when a site requires one. doesnt bother me if a spammer gets it because the account will die full and i wont have seen even one spam.
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neumannu47
Premium
join:2002-08-14
USA | Use a special email address/POP box Since I have my own domain name and leased spaced on a server, when I buy from Amazon, all of their email communications are sent to amazon@mydomainname.com. Therefore, it is easy to tell where the spammer got the email address. | |
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wozster
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Lenexa, KS
| Re: Use a special email address/POP box said by neumannu47 :
Since I have my own domain name and leased spaced on a server, when I buy from Amazon, all of their email communications are sent to amazon@mydomainname.com. Therefore, it is easy to tell where the spammer got the email address.
I do the exact same thing (for certain sites) and it works quite well!
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Use an alias here! I just recently bought a router from Amazon and when I saw this my first thought was "oh no"! I don't buy much on the internet and so this is really bad luck I am thinking...until I remembered what email address I used. I created an alias address using my dslr email account. It expired after two weeks. I have nothing to worry about. 
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viperpa33s
Why Me?
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL | Only if Microsoft could work that fast I'm amazed that it took Amazon so little time to fix it. Not that I approve of Amazon handling of the situation but I have to give them credit. Now if Microsoft would be this diligent about there security, maybe Windows and IE would be more secure? | |
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RickNY
Premium
join:2000-11-02
New York
| Re: Only if Microsoft could work that fast said by viperpa33s :
I'm amazed that it took Amazon so little time to fix it. Not that I approve of Amazon handling of the situation but I have to give them credit. Now if Microsoft would be this diligent about there security, maybe Windows and IE would be more secure?
What is amazing is that people have come to find it acceptable to not take the time to throrughly test for security flaws, and THEN be able to fix them later.
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| said by viperpa33s :
I'm amazed that it took Amazon so little time to fix it.
Uh, no offense, but baloney. It took them well over a WEEK to fix it. The original post is dated 12/19/03, by which time the original poster had "complained numerous times about this to Amazon.com, but as usual they give scripted replies that say they do not share customer information with unaffiliated third parties, etc."
Something this bad, and this easily fixed, should have been addressed the same day they got their first report and were able to duplicate the problem. Instead the news had to work its way up to the masses, as usual, before they did anything about it.
I despise Microsoft as much as anyone, but I think if THEIR web site were inappropriately disclosing millions of e-mail addresses, they'd at least TRY to fix it the same day they were informed.
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