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Originally Posted by alcstrategy
Security is really a specialized field and hosts can only do so much but if someone hacks a server they are also getting your members and other stuff. Emails are extra perk I think but all kinds of data is sold to all kinds of different people
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The guys at Swiftwill are supposed to be pretty good.
I've had tons of discussions with Bill at Phantom Frog, my own guy who works for me, and the guys at Choopa (where I host). And we've implemented many, many security things that are helpful.
I've never been offered any other kind of data for sale other than emails. There isn't any credit card info that you can get (because it is never in your database to begin with).
And as I was saying earlier...the emails just aren't valuable anymore (affiliate emails that is...member emails are still valuable of course). Hell, 99.9% of the people getting spammed on GFY can't send any sales or traffic anymore if they wanted to thanks to what piracy has done to the business of selling paysite memberships.
But buying and selling data has always been done anyway.
I remember about 10 years ago I had first bought my subscription to "Spam Arrest" because I was getting thousands of emails a day to sell me viagra and diamonds, etc.
I was at the Sands Expo Center for Internext that year and told a program owner that I had just gotten Spam Arrest and how good it worked. He laughed and told me that his company had been offered their mailing list and the ability to be put on a permanent "safe" list so that their spam mails would always go through to everybody irregardless of their Spam Arrest settings. lol
I had no idea that kind of thing happened. But it was educational to me for sure.