{"id":526,"date":"2004-06-25T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/HmmIWasGoingToChargeMoreThanThat.aspx"},"modified":"2004-06-25T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T15:50:49","slug":"hmm-i-was-going-to-charge-more-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/hmm-i-was-going-to-charge-more-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm, I was going to charge more than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>While <A href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/CommentView,guid,a31a4092-960d-4b1a-9533-033243b1c1f1.aspx\">I was only joking about selling addresses (see comments)<\/A>&nbsp;it appears the AOL workers are a little less loyal to their users.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A snippet of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=5498361\">the whole article<\/A> from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\">Reuters<\/A>:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<P>US Charges AOL Worker Sold Customer List for Spam<BR>Wed Jun 23, 2004 07:07 PM ET <\/P><br \/>\n<P>By Andy Sullivan <\/P><br \/>\n<P>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. investigators said on Wednesday they had arrested an America Online employee and a Las Vegas marketer for stealing the Internet provider&#8217;s customer list and selling it to a purveyor of &#8220;spam&#8221; e-mail.<br \/>\n<P>AOL members were flooded with millions of unwanted messages because of the scheme, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court in New York.<br \/>\n<P>Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was charged with stealing a list of 92 million AOL customer screen names and selling them to Internet marketer Sean Dunaway of Las Vegas. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=5498361\">[snip&#8230;]<\/A><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was only joking about selling addresses (see comments)&nbsp;it appears the AOL workers are a little less loyal to their users. A snippet of the whole article from Reuters: US Charges AOL Worker Sold Customer List for SpamWed Jun 23, 2004 07:07 PM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. investigators said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37],"tags":[89,94],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techhotmail","category-technet","tag-techhotmail","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}