Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-16 Thread Matthew V via mailop
It's hard to say if it's actually a CASL violation as the message was non-commercial so it's likely exempt under the law. ~ Matt On 2021-12-16 8:44 a.m., Chris via mailop wrote: They should also be clued into the fact that this certainly could be considered a potential violation of the

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-16 Thread Chris via mailop
On 2021-12-15 10:53 a.m., Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 12/15/21 6:27 AM, Larry M. Smith via mailop wrote: The list of domains being used appears to be here; https://measurement.cs.princeton.edu/privacystudy/ I don't have a dog in this fight, but I feel like the student and the professor

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Larry M. Smith via mailop said: >On 12/15/2021, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: >> I wonder if this guy would teach me his secret to get AWS to unblock >> port 25 for him. They turned me down, as I'm sort of a security risk, >> being an elite hax0r with xnnd.com and all that, haxing

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Larry M. Smith via mailop
On 12/15/2021, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: I wonder if this guy would teach me his secret to get AWS to unblock port 25 for him. They turned me down, as I'm sort of a security risk, being an elite hax0r with xnnd.com and all that, haxing port 25s all over town. (And maybe I don't WANT to use

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Andrew Wingle via mailop
Hey Al, That's easy all you have to do ^^^%% No Carrier   -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Al Iverson via mailop Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 10:22 AM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton I

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 12/15/21 6:27 AM, Larry M. Smith via mailop wrote: The list of domains being used appears to be here; https://measurement.cs.princeton.edu/privacystudy/ I don't have a dog in this fight, but I feel like the student and the professor / powers that be which approved this study should be

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.12.2021 o godz. 09:21:42 Al Iverson via mailop pisze: > I wonder if this guy would teach me his secret to get AWS to unblock > port 25 for him. I have a machine at AWS, created some three-four years ago. For most of the time it is turned off, but last time when I turned it on (a few

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I wonder if this guy would teach me his secret to get AWS to unblock port 25 for him. They turned me down, as I'm sort of a security risk, being an elite hax0r with xnnd.com and all that, haxing port 25s all over town. (And maybe I don't WANT to use SES, yuck.) Al On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 7:31 AM

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Larry M. Smith via mailop
On 12/15/2021, Raymond Dijkxhoorn via mailop wrote: (snip) If people received ones not originating from the below list (and the new reported org version) please let me know. yosemitemail[.]com potomacmail[.]com envoiemail[.]fr novatormail[.]ru The list of domains being used appears to be

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn via mailop
Hi! I heard back from the student. It's real, he thinks spamming scraped addreses is dandy. So maybe he's the person behind the other messages as well? They are too similar in language and questions they ask to be completely unrelated. -- They are definately from the same person. With

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 14.12.2021 o godz. 21:49:13 John Levine via mailop pisze: > > I heard back from the student. It's real, he thinks spamming scraped > addreses is dandy. So maybe he's the person behind the other messages as well? They are too similar in language and questions they ask to be completely

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread John R Levine via mailop
Which domain? Feel free to encode it out as need be. It was in my first message: From: Privacy Practices Registered at Namecheap, mail sent from AWS R's, John On Dec 14, 2021, at 6:49 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: It appears that Simon Arlott via mailop said: On 14/12/2021

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney via mailop
Which domain? Feel free to encode it out as need be. > On Dec 14, 2021, at 6:49 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: > > It appears that Simon Arlott via mailop said: >> On 14/12/2021 18:53, John Levine via mailop wrote: >>> I think this is different and really is a botched survey from a grad

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney via mailop
We saw similar at the dayjob: To Whom It May Concern: My name is Mary Clark, and I am a resident of Roanoke, Virginia. I have a few questions about your process for responding to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data access requests: Would you process a GDPR data access request from

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread Simon Arlott via mailop
On 14/12/2021 18:53, John Levine via mailop wrote: > I think this is different and really is a botched survey from a grad student. > Poking > around his department's web site, it seems like the sort of stuff he is > interested in. The way the content is phrased makes them almost identical.

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop said: >> We are researchers at Princeton University conducting a study of how >> websites are implementing the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation >> (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We are >> reaching out to you because

Re: [mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 14.12.2021 o godz. 09:39:15 John R Levine via mailop pisze: > > To Whom It May Concern, > > We are researchers at Princeton University conducting a study of how websites > are implementing the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and > the California Consumer Privacy Act

[mailop] Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton

2021-12-14 Thread John R Levine via mailop
I got a couple of copies of this message to addresses scraped off my websites. It was sent from AWS cloud using a recently registered domain so it's likely a phish, but "Ross Teixeira" is a real person, a grad student at Princeton. Needless to say, sending blasts of spam to scraped addresses