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Originally Posted by Jules76
When I was with TPG, I was told that once an email address is taken, it can no longer be used again once the contract is terminated. Not even by the same person if they switched ISP's then came back again (which is what I did). I assume it's the same for all ISP's and it does make sense for personal and security reasons.
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I would hope that is true across the board, Jules.
A few years ago someone from Denmark hacked into my eBay account and started selling excavation equipment (bobcats, large drilling rigs, graders etc.) using my eBay user name. Through my IT people at work I was able to trace it to an internet cafe in Vancouver. There the trail went cold.
I did listen to an interesting Radio National report in 2007 on
Background Briefing about internet security and one of the comments was that the US Govt. homeland security/CIA/FBI have basically given up on trying to maintain any level of security on the web. That is why there is such a big push from banks in the last few years to educate their customers to be more vigilant on the internet (or as some insiders claim, this pushes any blame back onto the customer if anything goes wrong. That is the bank's real hidden motive.
I have located the RN
Background Briefing report to download for anyone interested....
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9...4e75f6e8ebb871
Warning - it is 22Mb