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We reported exposed database, schools email marketing company told us to go away
- h2odragon 5y agoEven better footgun story: Had a domain name we registered as a favor for someone else, since we had DNS servers and all and they didn't. After several years our company is shutting down, and we're trying to help the other party transfer their domain and assume control of it etc. After 6 months of trying to get someone there on the phone or via email to respond sensibly we finally get a "do not contact us on this matter" letter from their lawyer. OK, fine then. Domain name goes up for auction as part of the final business liquidation, finds a new owner and everyone is happy. Except the original owners, who now find their web site isn't theirs anymore, and they dunno why. So I start getting calls from their owner threatening to put the original business out of business (too late), ruin my career, etc, etc. They send letters around to uninvolved others with phrases like "savage attack" and "premeditated sabotage" in them. I published some of the "please come pick up your shit" emails we sent them and their responses (and their lawyer's response). I'm told the owner went to his grave telling others about how I destroyed his business from personal malice. There are people one just cannot do a favor.
- ColinWright 5y agoI've met a few. Unfortunately they walk among us and have the appearance of reasonable people, right up until you discover otherwise.