[Sigia-l] Tagged: Malicious Social Network

[Peter Van Dijck]

No, the way it works is: you sign up, and in the signupfunnel they ask
for your emailpassword. Then they get your contact list. You can skip
this step but it's rather hidden. Nothing I can't skip myself, but a
lot of people won't.

Peter

On 4/22/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Peter Van Dijck:
>
> > it's very hard to sign up *without* spamming your entire
> > contact list
>
> Hmm. Which contact list? How does this work? You enter an arbitrary email
> address in a text field on a form and they miraculously obtain all the email
> addresses in your address book?
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