Mensaje del debate Ameritrade Reply #2

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From: stinky <stee...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ameritrade Reply #2
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:15:51 -0400

In article <bill-A808F2.06074715042...@toaster.scconsult.com>,
 Bill Cole <b...@scconsult.com> wrote:

> In article <steenky-12F26A.00102115042...@bignews.bellsouth.net>,
>  stinky <stee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We continue to make progress and work very hard at investigating this 
> > issue, but unfortunately we still don?t have an update we can share with 
> > you at this time. We hope you understand that sharing details of exactly 
> > what we have learned so far can compromise the ongoing investigation.
> 
> Cynical Translation: It looks bad, and Legal has gagged everyone 
> involved. 
> 
> > Please be sure to delete any spam you might receive, then empty your 
> > e-mail?s trash so that it?s no longer kept there, either.
> 
> Cynical Translation: Please don't retain any independent evidence.

Indeed. I suspect that they are not able to sweep this one under the 
carpet as easily as they did the other ones. Plus they are dealing with 
a more informed public, who has the access to create tagged email 
addresses. 

One of the first excuses given to me on another instance of my tagged 
email getting out to stock spammers was that my email address was easy 
to guess. I will give them that, no problem, my mistake to believe that 
a corporation would protect my privacy and when they didn't they would 
blame me for it. So then I changed my email to something a lot harder to 
guess. I banged on the keyboard and came up with my new and improved 
email address. Then again, here comes the spam after a period of time.

Another reason Ameritrade can't dismiss me as easily is that I have my 
own mail logs. They can't say "dictionary attack" because I have the 
logs. Most users don't have that luxury at their hands, and to get the 
logs would take a court order and $$$$$.

It will be good to watch them wiggle on this one. I wonder if a media 
outlet would like to take this one on. I don't know, my faith in the 
media is so/so. I just need to remember to contact them every so often 
and see what the progress is and to send them the logs on my THREE 
previous ameritrade accounts that are still receiving stock spams. I do 
find it funny that they receive ONLY stock spams. It might be time to 
get the government involved in this one.