Comment It's not always the company -- (Score 1) 355
There's a lot of danger with providing an email address.
1) Companies have partnerships with marketing firms. Often, it's these marketing firms that are the evil ones.
2) Spammers setup sniffers on networks to sniff incoming and outgoing email. often times they sniff a router close to the source of where the marketing emails are sent out and then they have all the email addys.
Email sent out today is NOT encrypted. ANYONE can read it, including the email addys.
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys.
1) Companies have partnerships with marketing firms. Often, it's these marketing firms that are the evil ones.
2) Spammers setup sniffers on networks to sniff incoming and outgoing email. often times they sniff a router close to the source of where the marketing emails are sent out and then they have all the email addys.
Email sent out today is NOT encrypted. ANYONE can read it, including the email addys.
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys.
