[PD-ot] Gmail is the new Outlook [was: Re: [PD] OT: Quechup]

[Chris McCormick]

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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