Scary

Yesterday I received an EarthLink CD in the mail. The problem being, it
was addressed to this name (this is a throw-away hotmail account with a
phony name) but with my real home address. How did this happen? I have
never associated this name with my home address. I use this email only to
post to USENET.

William Tucker

I've begun to suspect that our ISPs are as much to blame
for all the spam we get, as about anybody. They probably
sent you the CD, and get a little payola on the side for
doing it.

johns

johns

Its probably as the previous poster said but OTOH:

Altho you've never associated that email address with your physical
address it is possible that you've used the same browser *session* to do
so. Think, use web-based email provider to check mail, porn site for a
cheap thrill and then visit a books website to buy a book.

The ad-provider common to these sites uses a cookie to link them together.
When you provide the bookstore with your shipping details they make a buck
by selling on the details to the ad-provider. The ad-provider sells their
email list with added value browsing history to websites, credit reference
company and so on. Yahoo (my webmail provider) calls similar things web
beacons you should check out their privacy policy.

For my $.02, this invasion of privacy is as dubious as the acts of any
neophyte hax0r. As it is performed by people in suits in pursuit of
corporate profit no-one considers it "computer crime" (in the sense that
malicious hacking was a crime even before it was explicitly criminalised).

Steve

stevie

it could have been like this... someone just wanted to mess with you...
X looked at your ip from some session probably supernews where u post your
ng's then X looked up where in the world your ip belongs (ISP, country,
city) then using this name (thinking it was your real name)

or something like that... nothing is imposible these days... =/
"stevie" <> skrev i meddelandet
news...
> Its probably as the previous poster said but OTOH:
>
> Altho you've never associated that email address with your physical
> address it is possible that you've used the same browser *session* to do
> so. Think, use web-based email provider to check mail, porn site for a
> cheap thrill and then visit a books website to buy a book.
>
> The ad-provider common to these sites uses a cookie to link them together.
> When you provide the bookstore with your shipping details they make a buck
> by selling on the details to the ad-provider. The ad-provider sells their
> email list with added value browsing history to websites, credit reference
> company and so on. Yahoo (my webmail provider) calls similar things web
> beacons you should check out their privacy policy.
>
> For my $.02, this invasion of privacy is as dubious as the acts of any
> neophyte hax0r. As it is performed by people in suits in pursuit of
> corporate profit no-one considers it "computer crime" (in the sense that
> malicious hacking was a crime even before it was explicitly criminalised).
>
> Steve
>

Jimmie Moberg