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Re: A New Way to Catch a Hacker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tpurdy@newsguy.com)
Wed Apr 30 08:13:14 2003
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From: tpurdy@newsguy.com
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:49:44 -0600
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:22:00 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
<lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
>haven't map makers been doing this forever ... little out-of-the-way places
>on their maps ... that don't actually exist ... and would only show up
>elsewhere in cases likely involving legal issue.
>
>At 01:55 PM 4/28/2003 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28NECO.html?tntemail0=&pagewa
>>nted=print&position=>
People that deal in postal mailing lists do this also. Their clients
contract to use the names on the lists a certain number of times, and no
more. A percentage of the addresses in the lists are "seeds", which
allow the list vendor to track how their lists are being used.
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