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This is so blown out of proportion... yes, letting Google crawl email addresses is not kosher, but come on, public data already includes their company name, web
by azov 14y ago
This is so blown out of proportion... yes, letting Google crawl email addresses is not kosher, but come on, public data already includes their company name, website, and phone number, it's not like those merchants are anonymous.
Given the attention span of the folks who circulated the news in the first place, I would mention that no transaction data was leaked somewhere in the first paragraph.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoI don't think the problem here was anonymity. As the links were easily accessible the email addresses were being scraped and there was a phishing attack being carried out (which Coinbase blogged about yesterday).