Any MobileMe customer’s email can potentially be obtained via information viewable in the form of their public folder’s name making it a possible lucrative source of valid email addresses for spammers.
Also via TechCrunch
“Apple knows about the problem but insists it isn’t an issue because no one has complained publicly. An Apple representative said to one of our readers: ‘We’ve never had a complaint from a customer about people spamming them because of their iDisk public folder name. There is no way to remove your account name from the iDisk folders. I’m very sorry.’”
When will the MobileMess end? It’s the name I tell you! If they kept it .mac, everything would be fine!
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