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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Slimy new spamming technique |
| 1:14:59 pm mst / 12 March 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source San Francisco Chronicle 150 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| Some aggressive web marketers are including hidden bits of Javascript code on their websites which instructs the websurfer's computer to send them an e-mail unbeknownst to the sender. That way, the marketers can collect valid e-mail addresses for spam purposes. |
| As usual, reactions differ. One real estate agent who sells this software said, "It's marvelous. I get about three leads a day". Others have more accurately said, "This is a sleazy trick". |
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| Well DUH! by MysteriousStranger 1:19:36 pm mst / 13 March 2001 / # 1 |
| 2 years ago this was called a "security hole" and supposedly fixed.
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