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Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses
netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times."
I wish there was mod points for long winded waste of time
"We just wanted to make sure you could hear us now"
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Spammers attend these conferences. Now spammers have known email addresses of everyone there.
If it's just spammers attending, then they only got the email addresses of other spammers. The spammers can spam themselves all they want for all I care.
As your score(1, insightful @ 12:38pm pacific time) demonstrates, there are mod points available for short-winded wastes of time.
and they did it 17 times.
They were afraid that if they did it 18 times, it might look suspicious.
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Oh Well, Bad Karma and all . . .
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
As you said, this is /. Appreciate the irony dammit...
Just this morning, I got an email from bandwidth.com addressed to 1250 other customers.
I guess it is good I went with them instead of verizon, now I have even more email addresses to spam!
Why, was your interest tight before?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
you showed him dude, I certainly wouldn't want to be him because I would be reeling from that burn
While I agree that the email slip-up was pretty bad, I was more concerned about some of the other sensitive information that Verizon publicized. In addition to those 1200 emails, Verizon also emailed other sensitive information including:
1.the secret herbs and spices that go into KFC's chicken
2. the combination to the door of the Bat Cave
3.The location of Dick Cheney's 'undisclosed location'
4. The chemical composition of Kryptonite
5. The burial site of Jimmy Hoffa
6. the nuclear launch codes for U.S. Trident nuclear missile submarines
7. the full name, post office box address, and social security number of the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's Man with No Name
8. the address and repository information for that government warehouse that contains the Ark of the Covenant (it's on rack 12, shelf 7, box 336)
No, no.
Verison is so sure about their new security policies that they wanted to show the experts that publishing their collective addresses is no longer a problem.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
You accidentally... the internet? The whole thing?!
The chemical composition of kryptonite was already known - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. And it exists in nature too!
is dead. No really, someone killed him already. Securely and anonymously. We have a list of 1200 suspects and their names. Actually, 1200 people have a list of 1200 suspects and their names.