[OT] Spies under the bed.

Earthednet-wp prothero at earthednet.org
Sun Aug 31 13:02:17 EDT 2014


An attorney relative of mine is a lawyer who specializes in "Drunk while driving" cases. He found that when he sent emails to his clients using gmail, with the word "DUI", his clients, on their webmail pages, had ads for "DUI" lawyers (his competitors) on their browser pages. Needless to say, he stopped using that word. I guess that's the price of a free email service: marketing based on your email content.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Aug 31, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wrote an e-mail to Heather, the list Mum, in which I used a phrase which I have never used
> in any e-mail ever before or since.
> 
> Within 72 hours my gmail inbox is filling up with e-mail spam based on that phrase.
> 
> This is NOT meant as an indictment of Heather!
> 
> But what is does show is that any e-mail that contains any "interesting" information
> gets harvested by spy-bots or whatever quicker than you can say "numToCodepoint".
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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