You don't have to be evil to work for AOL...

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

…but it helps.

AOL engineer sells 92,000,000 screennames to spammer

Yep, you read that right, 92 MILLION.

[Revtim]

I wonder how much they paid him for the list.

[susan]

Now that they’ve canned my sibling, I can despise them with impunity.

[flamingbananas]

:eek:
I COULD BE ON THAT LIST! DAMN YOU AOL!

[MysteryFellow63427]

Normally, I believe the death penalty shouldn’t apply to non-capital offenses…
but in this case I’ll make an exception.

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@Revtim

I wonder how much they paid him for the list.

According to CNN:

Dunaway, of Las Vegas, NV., was accused of using the list to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold the list to other spammers for $52,000, according to David Kelley, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

[Morgyn]

Wow. Words really are cheap. He sold out for rips out calculator $0.00056 per name.

I’m so happy I never fell into the AOL trap, even though it meant I didn’t get to join the SDMB until it moved to the real Internet.

[Otto]

Looking forward to hearing about the prosecutions of the spammers for receiving stolen property. 92 million counts each of receiving stolen property.

[Ludovic]

@Morgyn

I’m so happy I never fell into the AOL trap, even though it meant I didn’t get to join the SDMB until it moved to the real Internet.

Because after all, you can’t do TCP/IP when you’ve dialed up to AOL.

[Morgyn]

@Ludovic

Because after all, you can’t do TCP/IP when you’ve dialed up to AOL.

All I meant was that I couldn’t get to the SDMB when it was on AOL, because I wasn’t on AOL. And that was because I had already been on the 'net for years before AOL put in an appearance, so I didn’t feel a need to join it.