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To: Dr.MensaWannabe who wrote (15352)	6/30/2001 12:35:00 AM
From: smchan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32936

I am not a programmer. I don't understand what happened last night. My guess? Someone screwed up. They poorly planned the project or mismanaged their time and failed to have a comprehensive test plan which would've caught the security error. That poor plan was either the result of a lack of concern over security or a lack of any creative thought to consider this contingency. Say a company served a subpoena on Silicon Investor and it was quashed in court. Could they then buy whatever list SI is selling and start the identification process? Interesting point. Depending on SI's privacy policy (note the word policy - look it up to understand just how non-binding it is), your information may or may not be sold. I can't see why SI would sell a list that linked user id's to mailing addresss, but then again these are trying times and dot coms need cash. They could possibly even sell your individual posting habits (times, days of the week, favorite subjects, etc). Another variation of your question. What if the company bought out SI or INSP to get to your information? It's a stretch but certainly possible. To be frank, I don't care how many obfuscaters, routers, gateways, etc you use, if a skilled person were determined enough, they can figure out who you are if you're on the net. No place, and I mean no place on the Internet is 100% secured and private - there are merely varying degrees. (The best security requires physical separation which the Internet which by it's very definition does not provide.) Sam