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This was when I worked in a horrible Ad network with questionable ethical standards. One of the projects I worked on - I reversed engineered the Android Market

This was when I worked in a horrible Ad network with questionable ethical standards. One of the projects I worked on - I reversed engineered the Android Market application to figure out the protocol used by it to get the email addresses of every single application developer on the Android market. It involved finding the fields of the Protocol Buffer RPC format used by all Google applications from the decompiled code. It took quite a while but I did it. This was made done so that the Ad network could cold call them for ad deals. I left immediately after that because of dropping levels of decency and ethical standards in that company.

JoeAltmaier 12y ago
Yeah my coworker was asked to mine financial newsgroups for emails, to sell to an outside contract (advertiser). We were supposed to be selling our own customers' email addresses (sketchy enough) but payroll was going to be a little bit short so anyway. He did it, then quit. I was already gone. The CEO had been arrested on stock fraud charges by the FBI shortly after I left. Things recovered; the company thrived and go bought out successively by larger companies until I think NASDAQ finally owned them.