Network Security Blog

Feb 27 2006

Google Pages used to harvest email addresses

Published by Martin at 12:45 pm under Privacy

Dennis, one of my fellow Podcast Roundtabler’s reminded me that Google Pages can be used to harvest email addresses. I was aware of this, but I decided to go ahead and get my page despite that. My email address is easy enough to figure out and I’ve put it out there enough times that I wasn’t in too much danger of getting an appreciable increase in spam. I probably will get more spam, but it’ll just be lost in the general background noise.

This highlights one of the principles of security that is often forgotten: You’ll never be able to remove or mitigate all threats. Security is about mitigating the threats you can and making sure you’re willing to accept those remaining.

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