On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, John Cwiklinski wrote:
> T. Clausen wrote:
>
> >>
> A while back, I created a hotmail address, with a completely random and
> highly unlikely to guess account name. I never used it, never announced
> it. Yet after 1 week, it had 74 spams.
>
> Personally, I think that someone has a hook on the inside of hotmail
> (actually, on the inside of Microsoft) for harvesting addresses.
> <<
>
> Unfortunately, it is much more simple than that. Your "Browser" has a cookie
> that is reporting back to the spammer, without your knowledge.
>
I afraid I don't think that this is a corect explanation. Even if the
address should be stored in a cookie (which it is not) it would still
require that I visited sites requesting and getting that cookie (which
they then wouldn't get).
Ohh, the reason for what I included the paranthesis is simply, that I am
paranoid and by default deny all cookie-access.....
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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