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(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Carlo Longino

Tue, Apr 24th 2007 4:21pm





Sex Lube Maker Finds Personal Info Quite Slippery

from the can't-get-a-grip dept

As personal data leaks go, this one's more potentially embarrassing than harmful, but the maker of the sexual lubricant Astroglide leaked the name and addresses of more than 250,000 people who asked for free samples over a four-year timespan. They've even got the gall to blame the issue on Google, since it was searches there that turned up the breach, and the search engine's cached copies haven't yet disappeared. Of course, this ignores the fact that the information was kept in a place where it was freely accessible, whether by Google's spiders, or by an individual. This leak really isn't particularly surprising given the regularity with which all kinds of personal info is leaked, lost or stolen these days. It just further illustrates that any information you provide to somebody can no longer be regarded as private. So little care is taken with personal information by so many companies these days, and these continual leaks bring only minor consequences. If companies can't even bother to keep something as innocuous as a name and address private, it's hard to have much faith they won't let other, more important information slide right on out too.

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    Of course they couldn't keep a hold of it...

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    josh, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 4:50pm

    ...it just slipped out of their hands.

    What can you say, they make a quality product!

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    Jason, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 5:02pm

    Wow how did that slip though the cracks?

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    Sal, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 5:10pm

    I bet they're experts with slippery situations like this.

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    Gamenac, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 5:56pm

    Haha, puns!

    Well, I guess you could say that their grasp on the situation is slip, sliding away!

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    Rick, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 6:00pm

    BS. I had to remove a cache of a few pages I did not want indexed on my site the other day.

    After 15 seconds of searching I found out how to do this via Google's tools. The cache was removed very quickly and easily.

    Astroglide slipped up, apparently the lube is messier than they think. They need to clean up their own mess, not Google.

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 6:18pm

    they need to get some virtual tissues...

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    Sorry Grandma

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    [email protected], Apr 24th, 2007 @ 6:24pm

    This one is too... too... funny! LOL

    So what if your grandma can look up your name on the internet and find out you bought some lube...

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    NotGonnaLook, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 7:55pm

    > So what if your grandma can look up your name on the internet and find
    > out you bought some lube...

    So what if you can look up your grandmas name on the internet and find out she bought some lube?!?!?!

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    Well, what if granny and grampa both lubed up and rammed a dildo into each others asses??? who'd wanna know that????

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    Gray, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 9:29pm

    >Well, what if granny and grampa both lubed up

    This is the start of a very slippery slope....

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    Now that's what I call a sticky situation...

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    Smilin' Bob, Apr 24th, 2007 @ 11:13pm

    Cash is King, baby!

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    Good thing...

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    James, Apr 25th, 2007 @ 7:46am

    ... I use Gun Oil :-p

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    need more

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    bobby joe wilson, Apr 25th, 2007 @ 10:49am

    that shit sucks the first time me and my wife ever had sex that shit would even looosen it up for me to fit in u guys need some new shit that stuff is fucken wacked

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    Yellow treats

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    Jimmy from Yellowstone, Apr 26th, 2007 @ 10:02am

    I used it on your wife and it loosened her up just fine.
    What a whore!

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    This thread is becumming fucking redickulous.

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