www.WhosWhere.com selling access to my employer's passwd file
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYHku43DXUbM57SdAQGQpwP/U9TzWE2vEjHYZo4eniVctFe3pVe0KIQe FvdNOWTykqfgEyhagKuifmRwUgjjIcIZONzRDw1Hi7UrJbOghH3j9sW5wxsphbxU 3U0hHuKumAczUHn03IVkkF4JpobawEgHqqP1Y++PhNopAvqnVSu+hnf5aIS1R390 MlUiwpoo0OE= =+Mm2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seth I. Rich - seth@hygnet.com "Info-Puritan elitist crapola!!" Systems Administrator / Webmaster, HYGNet (pbeilard@direct.ca) Rabbits on walls, no problem.
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/>
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 -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.
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Josh Richards -
Mark Allyn 206-860-9454 -
rich＠c2.org -
Seth I. Rich -
Steven L Baur