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SamC
White Water Yakist
3467 Posts |
 Posted - 2004-06-24 : 10:48:03
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| There's an article in the New York Times today. An AOL employee was arrested for selling AOL registrant email addresses to spammers in Las Vegas. I think he got about $150,000 for the list.Tough to protect data from insiders. |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 10:54:56
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| See what happens when you let a dba have access to the box?Brett8-) |
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SamC
White Water Yakist
3467 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 10:58:59
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| I'll be watching for the preventative measures that develop following this (and other) cases. Background checks, fingerprinting, signed agreements, security checkpoints on entry/exit...Hard to catch those thumb drives at security checkpoints. |
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Seventhnight
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2878 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 11:12:51
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| I don't know that it even really matters in this case. AOL has great spam filtering. So great that once you get blacklisted, it takes forever to get off.Corey |
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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!
4970 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 11:40:42
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Originally posted by X002548
See what happens when you let a dba have access to the box?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Nice one Brett  Where IS Poncho these days....Damian |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 12:10:22
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| Coding the DBA routines into his app even though no DBA is going to use them.Tara |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 12:12:39
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| I wonder who the alerts go to...Probably the AI virtual machineBrett8-) |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2004-06-24 : 13:17:25
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| A DBA called Eliza. She can run the help desk too ... and Tele Sales ...Kristen |
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Keep that data secure