Return of the Statically Typed Languages

Re:Return of the Statically Typed Languages by sanj on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @08:57AM (#188465)

Strangely, just yesterday, I got this email in my junk account:

Subject: My name is Cedric Beust and I caused you to get unwanted email

Message:

Hello,

I am Cedric and I blog on beust.com.

I have allowed everyone's email to be exposed throught my sloppy, weak security. I work at Google and this secruity lapse reflects poorly on Google too of course.

If you received this email, then your private email address has been scrapped from my weblog and posted to http://www.newsreadersite.eu/?page=562

This error on my part cannot be undonw of course. The mailbots have already scrapped your email address and now your address is runined forever. I hope it wasn't important to you.

I like to talk about important things like computer languages and architecture on my weblog, but I know so little about security that I allowed all of your addresses to be scrapped.

Sorry I am so lame,

Cedric

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Re:Return of the Statically Typed Languages by estall on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @12:55PM (#188761)

I got the same email. And I found out it was true. I googled the email address to which it had been sent and in fact, it was online at http://www.newsreadersite.eu/?page=562

Which goes a long way towards explaining why I have started getting SPAM on a previously clean email address.

The original author is correct, if you are a system architect at BEA and then you move to Google and you still can't keep a blog site secure, it is pretty lame.

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Re:Return of the Statically Typed Languages by schtog on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @11:55AM (#188674)

this is really fun if its true.

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