On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Kradorex Xeron wrote:
: > Illegal or not, this is still pretty damned shady. : > : : I will seldom touch on the legal side but I have a possible scenario: : : -- If David is no longer at that address, it could be said that his mail : account was taken down and the mail sent ended up in a possible "catch : all" box, perhaps someone at SecureWorks was looking through the said : catchall mailbox for any interesting mail sent to the secureworks.com : domain (i.e. to old employees) - It's quite common for companies and : organizations to monitor former employee mailboxes in the event anyone : that doesn't have any new contact information to be able to still get : somewhere with the old address. And them being a security organization, : maybe they proceeded to investigate the link sent. This is no doubt exactly what happened. A more ethical company would have sent HDM a polite note saying that the person no longer works there before curiosity got the best of them. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
