Just when you thought nothing else could possibly go wrong with MobileMess, it seems that Apple has created a spammer’s paradise!
From The Register:
The email harvesting issue arises because every MobileMe user gets a public idisk file-sharing site. These sites have an address tied into a user’s email username. A user can’t hide or delete his/her public folder and there’s no way to choose what the name will be.
As a result spammers only need to map the iDisk domain using web crawler tools to extract the entire MobileMe user name list. Taking this username list and simply adding either @me.com or @mac.com will give an email list, Techcrunch reports.
This news comes at the same incredibly inconvenient time that MobileMe users are being bombarded with elaborate and convincing emails from a Romanian phishing scam. Wow. Just when Apple thought that the horrendous launch issues were behind them.
Read [Techcrunch] Via [The Register]
Of course, the idiots at The Register have now broadcasted it to the world of spammers.
Thankfully, .Mac (it'll never be "Me" to me) allows for aliases, so I can sort the wheat from the chaff. It's been this way for a long time though.