[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

Brian Schenken brian.schenken at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 11:10:13 EDT 2014


Is it possible that you picked up a bit of spyware or malware on your one
of your own machines?  They love to crack open email clients and harvest
addresses...


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:02 AM, David Millians <millia at panix.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/4/2014 2:21 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>
>> In the two plus years that I used that particular address with them I've
>> never received an email from anyone outside of AT&T that was any form of
>> marketing pitch.  The only emails that particular address has ever seen
>> were billing messages (statement ready for viewing, bill reminders,
>> etc.) direct from AT&T.  Nor have I ever seen an attempt in the logs to
>> try and send to that address.  So it's really a case of them leaking it
>> out.  I'll won't know for sure if they simply violated their TOS because
>> they felt like it or if someone broke in.  I can only wait and see what
>> happens with the new address.
>>
>
> Personally, I would say that after, say, a month of no results has
> happened, I'd call their executive level ombudsman. TOS means lawyers;
> lawyers means lawsuits, and class action lawsuits are pesky. And violating
> TOS means you can break contracts, too. That'd be a lovely loophole for
> people to use. All of the above means somebody up top needs to know about
> it. Neither option is good.
>
> Barring that, I'd take it to consumerist. The rock and a hard place aspect
> of this would be great fun for them, I'm sure.
>
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