NODE ecd6033cwww.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
rich@c2.org (Rich Graves)Sat, 27 Apr 1996 20:46:49 +0800
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If you are involved with the affairs of a large organization, I urge you
to check www.whoswhere.com to see if they have a bunch of user email
addresses that they shouldn't.
Of course there is little that one can do about this kind of invasion of
privacy. But they don't have to be so fucking blatant and stupid about it.
They have the email addresses of DAEMONS from our password files in their
database.
There is no need for mailbombing, or anything like that. Our lawyers are
simply going to nuke them from orbit. Please check them out before they go
offline, so that you will have a shot at whatever is left.
- -rich
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NODE 5b26cd54Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
Mark Allyn 206-860-9454 <allyn@allyn.com>Sun, 28 Apr 1996 03:16:02 +0800
They are gone now.
mark.allyn.com% lynx http://www.WhosWhere.com
lynx: Can't access start file http://www.WhosWhere.com
mark.allyn.com% telnet www.whoswhere.com
www.whoswhere.com: unknown host
They are still registered with Internic:
mark.allyn.com% dig whoswhere.com any
; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> whoswhere.com any
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 2, Addit: 2
;; QUESTIONS:
;; whoswhere.com, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWERS:
whoswhere.com. 172787 NS CHARON.PSC.EDU.
whoswhere.com. 172787 NS ATTICA.MAGICALFOX.com.
;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
WHOSWHERE.com. 172787 NS CHARON.PSC.EDU.
WHOSWHERE.com. 172787 NS ATTICA.MAGICALFOX.com.
;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
CHARON.PSC.EDU. 172787 A 128.182.65.6
ATTICA.MAGICALFOX.com. 172787 A 204.170.102.34
NODE ea01a77eRe: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
"Seth I. Rich" <seth@hygnet.com>Sun, 28 Apr 1996 07:12:14 +0800
> They are gone now.
>
> mark.allyn.com% lynx http://www.WhosWhere.com
% lynx -dump http://www.whowhere.com/
[WhoWhere? Banner]
[Toolbar: Use hyperlinks at the bottom]
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: The WhoWhere? Internet Survey
Welcome to WhoWhere?, the largest Internet directory of email
addresses from around the world. This free service is rapidly growing
because so many of you Add Your Listing!
[...]
Seth
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NODE 9400f016Re: www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
Josh Richards <jrichard@slonet.org>Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:59:39 +0800
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Mark Allyn 206-860-9454 wrote:
> They are gone now.
Don't bet on it. (see below)
>
> mark.allyn.com% lynx http://www.WhosWhere.com
>
> lynx: Can't access start file http://www.WhosWhere.com
>
> mark.allyn.com% telnet www.whoswhere.com
> www.whoswhere.com: unknown host
[..dig output snipped]
They're still around. Drop the `s'....."www.whowhere.com" (Both domains
are registered with InterNIC, but they seem to be different
organizations.....)
Interesting, they've got some of my *really* old addresses (and the newer
ones too).
Josh Richards (jrichard@slonet.org)
SLONET Regional Information Access, Inc., Development Team
SLO Street Tech Development (Computer Services)
<URL:http://www.slonet.org/~jrichard/>
NODE 53595c79[WebRobotPunks] OKRA net.citizen Directory Service
Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:50:22 +0800
These guys are worse offenders than whowhere, and they do abusive
fingering (the only webrobot that has shown up so far in my finger
logs):
http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/
They have an e-mail address for me I used once in a Usenet test post
5 years ago. Since that address was entered into their database on
the 9th of March, 1996 the only place they could have gotten it from
is one of Tim May's old Usenet backup tapes.
Coming soon ``Expanded database size''? I can hardly wait ...
OKRA net.citizen Directory Service
Brought to you by the Department of Computer Science
_________________________________________________________________
new
New Database Engine Now Active!
Faster! - Increased Precision! - Exciting New Output Format!
coming soon
Expanded database size on the way...
_________________________________________________________________
Current Statistics
Database entries: 3,525,243
Queries performed today: 2,084
--
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