Mining Email Addresses
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Topic: Mining Email Addresses
Posted By: xeerex
Subject: Mining Email Addresses
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 1:27am
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Is it possible to mine the email addresses of users from v7.x of the
forum? I suppose a program would have to be written but can anyone
think of an easy way to do it short of FTP access to the database?
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 5:10am
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Email address can be imported into the Web Wiz Mailing List application.
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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 10:27am
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Hi -borg- and thanks for the reply. I should have been clearer in my question. Is there a way that anyone is aware to "maliciously" mine the email addresses? In other words just a normal board user being able to "rob" the email addresses somehow without FTP access to a database that is well above root and setup properly. ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 11:54am
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If it's an Access DB it's just a flatfile, so if you haven't taken the steps to secure it listed in the readme's, anyone can download it and open it in any text editor. For a MSSQL database, they would need to get access to your DB userid and login. Typically, the most common security breach is through social engineering - someone gets login and password info from you - or from someone you gave the information to. Always a good idea to change both periodically. ------------- 
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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 3:28pm
Again, this database is setup above root and is properly secured, but thanks for the feedback. I've setup several WWG forums and am well aware of the flat-file, risks, and everything else on the security end. No one has FTP access and the potential user does not have mod status. My question is "is it possible for a normal user without the FTP login/pass or admin access to create a script or bot and mine the email addresses?". Thanks again. ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |
dypers wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 5:11am
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There shouldn't be and certainly if the user selects not to have their email address shown no one can see their email address
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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:18am
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Thanks -borg- and I thought so. I had run through every possible
scenario so I think this person was just blowing smoke. Thanks for the
replies! BTW: My largest forum is over 10k users, avg's close to 800 users a day logging in, peaks at over 100 active users, still runs fast.....And is still powered by Access! ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |