[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

[Alex Carver]

No, aside from the fact that all machines are scanned regularly (and
that I use mutt to read my email ;) ), these addresses are aliases
rather than usable addresses.  I don't send messages from them and when
I receive messages they have already been rewritten to go to my regular
account address.  The aliases only show up in the exim logs during the
rewrite.  The spyware/malware would have to be pretty fantastic to
gather log files from a completely different machine and figure out the
aliases. :)

On 2014-09-04 08:10, Brian Schenken wrote:
> Is it possible that you picked up a bit of spyware or malware on your one
> of your own machines?  They love to crack open email clients and harvest
> addresses...
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:02 AM, David Millians <millia at panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 9/4/2014 2:21 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>
>>> In the two plus years that I used that particular address with them I've
>>> never received an email from anyone outside of AT&T that was any form of
>>> marketing pitch.  The only emails that particular address has ever seen
>>> were billing messages (statement ready for viewing, bill reminders,
>>> etc.) direct from AT&T.  Nor have I ever seen an attempt in the logs to
>>> try and send to that address.  So it's really a case of them leaking it
>>> out.  I'll won't know for sure if they simply violated their TOS because
>>> they felt like it or if someone broke in.  I can only wait and see what
>>> happens with the new address.
>>>
>>
>> Personally, I would say that after, say, a month of no results has
>> happened, I'd call their executive level ombudsman. TOS means lawyers;
>> lawyers means lawsuits, and class action lawsuits are pesky. And violating
>> TOS means you can break contracts, too. That'd be a lovely loophole for
>> people to use. All of the above means somebody up top needs to know about
>> it. Neither option is good.
>>
>> Barring that, I'd take it to consumerist. The rock and a hard place aspect
>> of this would be great fun for them, I'm sure.
>>
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