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I can confirm it tested negative for negatives, and positive for a positive.
by tajano 11y ago
I can confirm it tested negative for negatives, and positive for a positive.
- Zombieball 11y agoThanks! The best I could do was test superman@ or batman@ but the results were meaningless.
- princeb 11y agobarack.obama@whitehouse.gov is in there (and verified, whatever that means), as is tblair@labour.gov.uk (unverified), pointed out by zerohedge.
- tajano 11y agoI assume "verified" means that Ashley Madison's server sent a verification email to that address, and the user at that address clicked on the verification link included in that email. Certainly, someone might enter in barack.obama@whitehouse.gov for fun. Presumably, emails to that address (and the official public email address, president@whitehouse.gov) get routed somewhere. But who is checking the emails sent to the president's public address? That likely requires a team of people, one of whom might have clicked on the link.
- chinathrow 11y agoVerification links gets clicked by mail scanning software (for malware, I suppose) all the time - if the GET isn't followed by a POST - the account is flagged valid.
- wl 11y agoAs another data point, one of my gmail addresses is in the dump (Cf. https://xkcd.com/1279/ https://xkcd.com/1279/ ) and listed as verified, despite me never clicking any verification link. Then again, I did contact support asking for them to remove my email address from the account (their response was to ask for money) and perhaps that did something.