Automatic download list serves as spamlist

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 25 de maig de 2009, Krzysztof Chrapka va escriure:
> To KDE.org team,
> unfortunatly after posting some contents on kde-looks.org, I got my very
> first Nigerian spam letter. After quick googling out where did my e-mail
> address croped up in the Internet, I found it on the
> http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/amarokscripts/amarokscripts.xml
> automatic download list. As far as I remember, I have not allowed
> redistributing my email address and I was assured that it will not be
> visible to the other users. Moreover, I am unable to change it in a
> spam-bot secure method (with replacing @ or dot characters), since you are
> checking validity of address after each change. Although the email address
> was given on page associated to  opendesktop.org, it leaked out to the open
> Internet from the KDE project domain.
>
> Hoping, this thoughtless security hole will be patched soon,
> Yours sincerely,
> Krzysztof Chrapka

Frank? Lydia?

Albert