On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 06:11:07PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I first read about it here: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/04/quechup-is-rotten-do.html
Joining is an innocent act - as far as I can tell it's just a crooked organization.
Interesting. But it seems to target Gmail users only: http://tinyurl.com/2jslgo
Morale of story: Gmail is evil. Gmail is the new Outlook. Very easy to exploit by spammers. Maybe I'll make a filter to not accept mail from @gmail addresses in the future. And @yahoo as well.
In my opinion the moral of the story is don't ever give out your login details. This 'attack' is a social networking attack that requires the user to submit their gmail username and password to the site before it spams everyone in your account. Someone could write a 'virus' to do this to my ssh account which logs into mutt and does the same thing (after asking me to submit my login details). The problem is a user education problem. People need to re-learn the lesson of not trusting third party websites with their personal/login details.
I'm hanging out for the AI singularity, when it will only get much much much worse, and there won't be anyone to sue. :)
Best,
Chris.
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