{"id":357,"date":"2007-01-13T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-01-13T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:01","slug":"trust-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Trust no one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I just don&#8217;t get this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>back when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">gmail<\/a>, I thought I would see what all the buzz was about. I was under impressed because it was no different than all the other webmail systems out there.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I logged into the account. It had never been used to SEND or receive email, so there is no way anyone would have know it existed. When I logged in, the account had over 200 messages of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spam\">SPAM<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This gives me a very high confidence that someone has sold the entire Gmail database to a spam house. The email address I was using was a very random set of characters and\u00a0 numbers. Now you know why I am so paranoid about not trusting any other companies to host my services. If they sold mailing lists, what else are they selling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I just don&#8217;t get this&#8230; back when Google started with gmail, I thought I would see what all the buzz was about. I was under impressed because it was no different than all the other webmail systems out there. Today, I logged into the account. It had never been used to SEND or receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muggle-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}