{"id":174,"date":"2006-02-14T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-02-24T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T18:06:47","slug":"are-gamespot-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Are Gamespot spammers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/gaming\/Are_Gamespot_spammers_\">Digg has a writeup<\/a> of how Gamespot has been progressively leaking private email addresses to random spammers.  Gamespot has been completely non-responsive when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the comments I&#8217;m seeing, it looks like old users are left alone, and new users are being harvested \/ sold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=114\">I wrote about this last month<\/a> and the problem remains.  I should add that I&#8217;ve never used the forums.  All I did was create an account so I could download a file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clayton.oneill.net\/permalink\/17\">read more<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/gaming\/Are_Gamespot_spammers_\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg has a writeup of how Gamespot has been progressively leaking private email addresses to random spammers. Gamespot has been completely non-responsive when contacted. Based on the comments I&#8217;m seeing, it looks like old users are left alone, and new users are being harvested \/ sold. I wrote about this last month and the problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}