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E-mail addresses changing hands Harlan Messinger 06-29-2005
Posted by Harlan Messinger on June 29, 2005, 11:07 am
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It seems to me that there's a potential for personal security breaches
when a person drops an e-mail address which is then picked up by someone
else, as might happen if I moved out of a Comcast service area and then
someone else with the same first initial and last name were to
subscribe. Have any actual incidents been reported? What kinds of
safeguards exist to prevent them?


Posted by Bit Twister on June 29, 2005, 10:12 am
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:07:30 -0400, Harlan Messinger wrote:
> It seems to me that there's a potential for personal security breaches
> when a person drops an e-mail address which is then picked up by someone
> else, as might happen if I moved out of a Comcast service area and then
> someone else with the same first initial and last name were to
> subscribe. Have any actual incidents been reported? What kinds of
> safeguards exist to prevent them?

Guessing a 6 month ban on the email addy then it if free for use.
Depends on the provider.


Posted by Walter Roberson on June 29, 2005, 3:23 pm
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:It seems to me that there's a potential for personal security breaches
:when a person drops an e-mail address which is then picked up by someone
:else,

Yes.

:as might happen if I moved out of a Comcast service area and then
:someone else with the same first initial and last name were to
:subscribe. Have any actual incidents been reported?

If I recall properly, comp.risks has mentioned a few incidents such
as these. Sorry, I do not recall particular timeframes.

:What kinds of
:safeguards exist to prevent them?

What kind of safeguards exist to prevent the same kind of problem
with respect to phone numbers? Yes, companies delay re-assigning
phone numbers, but inevitably there are doctor's offices or banks
which haven't been updated...

There has been a notable subclass of this issue: that fax numbers
get changed and not everyone gets notified (or loses the notification
or doesn't update speed-dial), with the result that confidential
documents get faxed to someone who may or may not be ethical about the
matter. (In some cases, the person has had to sue the faxing company to stop
them from sending more confidential faxes!)
--
"I want to make sure [a user] can't get through ... an online
experience without hitting a Microsoft ad"
-- Steve Ballmer [Microsoft Chief Executive]


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