Well, in the old saying "if there is nothing to be afraid of, why is there any need to be worried about it?"
Look, I have not published what some people have sent me from anonymous email services (quite some different opinions, not just one email).
I am simply asking if anyone has further info, as I have been asked to link my customers/visitors to this website (by a significant figure here) and direct traffic to it. Which is great. But I just want to reassure myself there have been no data protection issues - several quite independent people have asserted there may have been, to me - BEFORE I recommend my customers/visitors here.
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(This para relates to HJ forum) There is a suggestion that upon registration, the password may be visible to moderators/webmasters in plain text (and may have been stored and kept by them), and has been used to post in people's names in the other place (ie HJ) when retribution or humiliation was felt to be a suitable "punishment". This has happened to me, I believe (post now hidden). I have been a victim. I do have some evidence for it, including transcripts that look real, discussed openly in a hidden mod thread on the other place. So, some mods (at the other place) must be aware this has happened. As some of the mods here seem to be the same people, there really should be some recognition of this??? Or is it all fantasy? I believe users should know. I am not accusing any individual, or suggesting the mods here are at all involved, but would like to know if this culture exists? Forum should not be run with punishment squads. It does not "belong" to any mods or a cabal.
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Of course I'm not the internet police (even though I am Chinese and they are good at internet policing), but... I do hate anything that smacks of DP issues. I shut down a Merseyside scouser email company 6 months ago, operated by Connect Internet (the company who runs the Serious Fraud Office intranet, God help us, safe to name them as all 100% true) as they allowed access to any website the people visited from a link in an email. They passed full session info (for instance - to me). So, as I showed in pictures, I could access a customer's whole email account. In that case I was called a "hacker" by Connect, but was completely vindicated by a) the police, (I raised the issue to the Merseyside police) who in fact pointed out the service should be closed and that I was good for exposing it, and b) Mel Croucher, respected journalist at Computer Shopper was copied in at all times, and backed me up 100% in print (as I choose to work with him on several different issues). Story here: www.lingscars.com/merseymail.php with screenshots, statements and (shock) pictures.
My own opinion is to be completely open with this stuff. So let's allow people to say if they suspect there has been any foul play. To suppress that would be wrong. No one is being accused, no one is trying to ruin the forum, no one is saying anyone has done anything wrong.
...unless you know otherwise?
I'm not being holier than thou, just that I have been given info (that I very largely withhold) from several sources that may be simply troublemaking stuff, or may turn out to have some truth. Who knows?
All the discussion and reasoning in this thread seems fine, chill :) I'm not calling anyone any names.
Ling
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