Posted on 08/14/2013 9:18:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Dear FRiends,
A FReeper sent me a short list of names this morning that he says he found on an internet site that matched up freeper names to their real names. He says he managed to get the site owner to delete it and we can thank him for that. But in the message he sent me there was also an accusation that the list was provided to a third party by John Robinson. That's bullshit. John would never do such a thing.
On a hunch, I looked up the listed names on FR's facebook page and sure enough all but two were members. Then he sent me a longer list and I recognized many of those names as also being facebook members. I've seen threads run on facebook where members outed their own FR screen names. If you have a facebook or twitter account or other social media accounts in your real names, you may want to be cautious about outing your FR screen name. There are leftists out there and sometimes even anti-freepers who could easily compile and post such lists.
“e-mail unavailable” due to technical problems.
Not in a post. Admin has my email address. It was required when I signed up.
Yes, there was a list on face book I know I was on it.
OMG JPB has spoken..... 2 words but its a start.....:O)
No, but I got a notification at my alternate email address, giving me a code that I supposedly requested for my Hotmail/Outlook account’s settings. I made no such request. I rarely check that email, and the notification was about two months old.
Today’s problems were no simple hacking. I didn’t get a “wrong password” notification. My email page simply wouldn’t load. I got no error message about it until after I sent two or three reports. Then the error message stating they were having a problem with Hotmail (not my account specifically, but Hotmail in general, like it was a system wide problem) referenced the time they became aware of this Hotmail problem. Same time as my first report. They had this problem with Hotmail for about an hour before I filed my first report, but nobody else complained? I don’t think so. My Hotmail Calendar and Contact List were down at the same time. My Calendar, which has nothing in it, was back up in a few minutes. My Contact List took about half an hour and it came back up. My email, which I never delete anything from, took about four hours. All other features (which i never use) continued to work the whole time. They didn’t even leave a kiss on my pillow!
up from 2 words to 6 words....my gosh but you are talkative today.....
Interesting. That would suggest someone didn’t just cruise the site and FB threads for email addresses and real names.
Was the site actually hacked?
I remember that. A lot of people did put up their FR handles.
Darksheare’s coffee, oh my an additional weapon I hadn’t thought of to keep on hand!
Hope you deleted content before permanently deleting your account.
I use a dedicated email address just for FR but what bothers me is that my FReepathon donation comes from Paypal with the real name on it. Just did this, too. Might be easy for a hacker to correlate the FR handle and real email name once in the databases.
Your screen name is not on the list.
See?
Darksheare’s ungentlemanly warfare school!
Smile sweetly at people while The Coffee eats their sanity..
It’s there when I sign on. I don’t know how to make it visible if you’re visiting.
DUngaloid right back at ‘em.
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