Seeing as Robert hasn’t yet I thought I had better warn everyone who uses this forum that their information isn’t secure and hasn’t been for months.
A copy of every email sent from or through the forum arrives in my companies postmaster account and has done for the last six months or so. This means that we could have built up a list of everyone’s' email addresses, which could then be legally sold on to a spamming company. It also means we have received copies of the account information, including passwords, for everyone who has signed up during this time. While this is something we wouldn’t ever consider doing, if we are receiving copies then it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect other people will be receiving copies as well, who may want to profit from it.
Another forum member brought up the topic of spy cookies being installed on users of this forums computers a few weeks ago. He was perfectly correct and I thought I would take a couple of mins to explain exactly what this cookie does for those who are interested. If you are running any form of spyware detector on your computer it should pick it up.
The purpose of this cookie is to log which web pages you visit and then send this information back to a company which specialise in collecting information about your interests so that other companies can purchase the email addresses of people who have shown an interest in a particular area. Say you went to a couple of holiday booking website they would presume you are looking to go on holiday and then send you emails containing information about different holidays. The forum also logs both your email address and IP address and in many cases this can be used to find out your home address so that they can send you information through the post as well as by email.
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Cheers,
Andy
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