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Links: AOL Engineer Accused of Selling Names to Spammer
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Friday, June 25 @ 15:24:32 EDT Computer Crime
The feds this week busted an AOL software engineer and charged him with selling the company's customer list to a spammer. That's 92 million email addresses; at $100,000 for the list, each address was worth about a tenth of a cent. The engineer and his fence face five-year prison terms, and I predict that AOL will face a massive class action civil suit.

UPDATE 2:15 June 25: Whoops; double post. Sorry.

 
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