Hallo, Dafydd Hughes hat gesagt: // Dafydd Hughes 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.
Ciao
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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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:
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. :)
One really doesn't have to believe in the AI singularity, to believe that spam and internet fraud will get much worse and that perpetrators will become increasingly more difficult to track down.
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