Getting Email Addresses?

[Kai Schaetzl]

Mike Kercher wrote on         Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:57:19 -0600:

> I would wonder if the sites in question were reading cookies from the users'
> drives?
>

Unlikely. Cookies usually don't contain email addresses. Also, you have to
have good knowledge about old browser holes. Why should someone try this
complex task which has only a slim chance of succeeding today just for parsing
non-existent email addresses from cookies? *If* you get thru you install a
trojan, of course.

I think the chance is much higher that these people got spam, went to the
website and got more spam and made a connection where none is.


Kai

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