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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: Zazen on April 17, 2007, 07:09:29 PM
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OK so here's my story. I'm at work and my buddy there decides to google my name because he's not very productive. I generate 3 hits, the first two of which aren't me. The last is me alright, and it looks like a record in some database with my full name and mailing address. The domain? www.astroglide.com.
He asks "what's astroglide?" and I'm kind of shocked because I thought everyone uses astroglide. I tell him "dude, it's sex lube. What do you use?". He looks totally confused and says "nothing". "Seriously nothing? What's that good for, like 15 minutes? What do you do when the well runs dry?" He says, a little defensively, "Hey I have a kid, everything's working fine for me".
So I look at the site with my name in it and it's no longer available. No worries, google cache to the rescue! I click and am presented with a list of about 2000 names and addresses, and the name of the file itself is "astro_batch_10182004.txt". Yeah, I kind of remember ordering a free sample of that "Astroglide warming liquid" crap around 2004. It gave me a burning-genital sensation that reminded me of how they described STDs in high school health class.
Of course I check the containing directory, and, Lo! there's some newer files in there! Well really only one that has actual customer data:
http://www.astroglide.com/Data/SilkenSecretSummary.txt . It looks like a big huge list of people who have requested samples of their "Silken Secret" product. And, even better, it has extra data fields like gender and "reason for trying" ("Vaginal Dryness", "Intimate Activity", etc).
For my convenience the list was already available on that site as an excel spreadsheet for easy filtering (http://www.astroglide.com/Data/SilkenSecretSummary.xls), so I immediately filtered for females in my area aged 18-25 who listed "Vaginal Dryness" as their reason for requesting. Now, there are no phone numbers in the list, but most of the name/address combos are easily found in any white-pages web site. So I got a few numbers and called some on my way home from work, only one answered and she did seem to remember ordering an astroglide sample. She wasn't happy that an 'astroglide rep' was calling her at home about a problem with her sample order and she definitely wasn't happy when I asked her specific questions about the moisture level in her vagina. It was somewhat funny but I hate using my phone when I'm driving.
So then I got home and took a good hard bong-rip, ordered a pizza and wrote this long winded stoner post, because it's been a while since I've read the PLA site and I'm also a little too busy lately to make good use of the list. And so I hereby offer it up in the hopes that it will be amusing for someone.
Thank you for reading, and have a nice day!
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Just snatched both those files ::)
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That's actually really funny.
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yeah check the robots.txt for a few more, sometimes theres cool shit and the site is indexable. this one seems not to be though but what do you think they have behind these doors?? heh, sexy ;)
http://www.astroglide.com/security/
http://www.astroglide.com/admin/
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How do you read the robots.txt file?
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How do you read the robots.txt file?
Just go http://www.websitename.com/robots.txt. Like this:
http://www.google.com/robots.txt (http://www.google.com/robots.txt)
http://www.2600.com/robots.txt (http://www.2600.com/robots.txt)
http://www.hotnakedpictures.com/robots.txt (http://www.hotnakedpictures.com/robots.txt)
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Oh that's cool, thanks!
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Just snatched both those files ::)
The full list seems to be dead in the water now
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Just snatched both those files ::)
The full list seems to be dead in the water now
Can't look at the directory contents anymore either. Anyone who wanted those files could have saved them 4 million times by now anyways.
The real question is did a harassed customer complain to them or did they see this post?
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I actualy made a mailing list out of all those addresses and emailed it to every single one.
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I actualy made a mailing list out of all those addresses and emailed it to every single one.
I guess that's why the site changed.
But it didn't change much, the excel version is still available (http://www.astroglide.com/Data/SilkenSecretSummary.xls). Good job, astroglide!
Also, googles cache has a bunch of older files available. Look up: astroglide REQUEST_ID
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It's already in Circulation on the Soh/Hs network ;D
http://rs140.rapidshare.com/files/26854276/adresses.txt (http://rs140.rapidshare.com/files/26854276/adresses.txt)
Broken-error uploaded his copy for everybody to share , ain't hat nice ;D
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I didn't really but someone should since it would be nuts if astroglide got sued because of PLA.
What are the grounds for a lawsuit with something like this?
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I didn't really but someone should since it would be nuts if astroglide got sued because of PLA.
What are the grounds for a lawsuit with something like this?
As far as I know, the Astroglide people would be the ones who'd be sued.
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Please, no one is getting sued. Bank O' freaking America leaks massive amounts of SSNs all the time and get away with it.
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How many people are on that fucking list. I grabbed the Excel copy.
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Please, no one is getting sued. Bank O' freaking America leaks massive amounts of SSNs all the time and get away with it.
Besides, the victims would be way too embarrassed to sue them.
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if it's there, it there. if it's online and not encrypted/passwd protected - no one breached anything. you didn't exploit anything to get that file, you didn't bruteforce any passwords. theres no breaking and entering. No one will get sued, relax. Besides, passing around files like these is just the eCommunism way of life. :) I would have done the same..
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This seriously too funny...I don't even know what I would say if someone I knew was on the list..
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What are the grounds for a lawsuit with something like this?
"Now everyone thinks I'm a sex machine" wouldn't really cut it. You could say you were so shocked about seeing your name on the list that you spilled a jar of astroglide warming liquid on your crotch, but it was too warm...
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Ya!!!! Lets post our email address and ask people you don't know do go out of their way and
sign you up for copious amounts of porn do work for a person they don't know.
Is a .xls alright? BTW, you may want to read up on alternate data streams.
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This seriously too funny...I don't even know what I would say if someone I knew was on the list..
you do realize it's lube for having sex? You should try some sex.