I took time to dig into the data, before I posted that rant.
Did you?
Like I said, when I make random test addresses I do not bother going to the effort that would have been required if those lists of addresses were fabricated. Maybe someone did go to the trouble, but the data did not look that way to someone who thinks about what the data should look like.
Pointing too much out would be helping wannabee script kiddies, so that's about as far as I'm gonna say here. (It's bad enough to confirm to the spammers who lurk here that there are probably live addresses in those lists.)
I also took time to dig into Intel's, Microsoft's, and now Apple's non-efforts at security.
And I refrain from being more specific about that for similar reasons, but it is precisely because of the no-brainer holes that the market leaders leave in their security that more than half of that load of data was harvested. And it is the market leader wannabees in the Linux communities, trying to "be like the big boys", that have produced similar holes in many of the Free/Open systems available..
Now, who's unreal here?