LadyConstanze -> RE: password update?? (8/5/2011 4:48:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDaveGuy69 LC Not everyone is as net-savvy as you and I. I have no problem with CM asking users to change their passwords. While it is an unusual request, and tends to indicate some sort of breech, a password reset is generally a good thing. It's been a while since I read CM's TOS but I'm pretty sure they reserve the right to "share" information with whomever they see fit. I don't know for a fact that selling e-mail addresses is illegal anywhere. That would be news to a lot of e-mail marketing firms. I'm very familiar with XOBNI - it can only operate on the e-mail address you provide. I suspect you and I do a similar amount of compartmentalization when it comes to our respective social netwoking activities. The bottom line is that this was handled very poorly. It would be easy to write a script to harvest login ID's, generate cookies, login and update the password. And then just for the fun of it, delete the account. Now wouldn't you love to stop by the next morning to find no trace of your CM account? Not the end of the world but damn would that ever suck. Just sayin'... I'm not even that net savy, just your average user, most people around have used the net for a few years or have grown up with it, seriously, if you sign up for anything you don't want to advertise, you create a 2nd or 3rd email, you get that forwarded, it really isn't rocket science. I mean even if they would sell my email address - spam filter would get most of it, nobody would get much out of it. Look, this is an adult website, it's not too much to ask that the people who sign up act like adults and are responsible, it's the equivalent of a married man paying for the services of an escort with a credit card, when the wife does the books. People need to step up and be responsible for what they do... Btw I monitor the account I use for CM - I would have noticed if the address was sold on, though I do not get any spam trying to sell me kinky stuff, apart from the usual "generic viagra" (I must be looking a bit old) and breast enhancing treatments (last thing I need) to all sorts of fake watches... I don't think it's CM, I think it's just general spam
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