Verizon stuffs up on privacy
RED-FACED VERIZON was left with egg on its face when it leaked the email addresses of 1,200 IT pros while advertising a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information.
David Williams, technology coordinator for a Texas school district, received 14 e-mails promoting Verizon's Secure the Information. Secure the Infrastructure webinar series, and three e-mails promoting its 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report Road Show.
Sending out shedloads of spam was only half of the problem. The 'TO' field of the e-mails contained over 1,200 email addresses.
To be helpful Williams warned Verizon of the data leak and sent them a few articles on the dangers of using the BCC field when addressing mass email.
Verizon said sorry and said it would never do it again. But then it sent out 1,200 spams again, seven times.
Verizon replied that it was having 'issues' with its Volish Exchange server.
One would think that if you are trying to impress people about your ability to secure data and protecting personal information you should make sure that the details of the people you are trying to sell your product to do not end up in the hands of ID thieves, but apparently Verizon did not think this was important. µ
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Got email Sunday; ad for dedicated subscriber line 3 mb/s first 6 months free, $29.95 after plus free modem.

When it started it came with $19.99 extra fee cheapo modem which isn't even Vista capable at all, Machine added $30 of essentials & extras,to my account, although I stated repeatedly I don't want those services & worst made connection at 756K with only ONE Month free.

Its useless trying to talk to Verizon, I have tried 5 times to cancel order, NO Way. Just say theres NO Problem with service. What bunch of croocked 19th century criminals.

DO NOT subscribe to Verizon. Once you do, you'll be ripped off severely, Verizon assumes your precious Phone Number will prevent you from haveing courage to cancel, as entire telephone line has to be cancelled, due to crummy internet division. Its wonder, you pay extra each time "Verizons" support adds or takes out items, isn't that function of customer service, to adjust items for free?

Hope Verizon goes Under with ALL other Schlock marketers.
drashek
"One would think that if you are trying to impress people about your ability to secure data and protecting personal information..."

One would also think that you would not be using any Volish software when trying to be secure and keep a certain level of privacy.

Bash me if you will, but MS proves monthly just how secure their software really is.
...sure, blame it on the Exchange mail server, which is mostly just an MTA that does what a client tells it to, rather than blaming it on the idiot who screwed up at the helm of the client that hands off the message(s) to Exchange.

And next time you baboons whack your thumb nailing some innocent to the cross, go ahead and blame the hammer.

Now Ted, since you invited bashing please allow me to relieve you of your suspense. Congratulations for blindly believing everything you read, making emotional statements about a product about which you appear to know very little, then finishing it off with an ignorant statement about software security. Polly wanna cracker?

Kids, learn to think for yourselves instead of just giggling stupidly every time some variant of the word "vole" appears on the pages of The Inq.
Well, drashek, seems like when you actually have something to say you DO know how to write in proper English !

Who'd 've thought ?

Not me.