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- author20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AOL has a long record of security and privacy violations. In the early 90s, thousands of "volunteers" shared master key information on all members passwords. Member email was hacked and my own book manuscript was intercepted. They followed my suggestion and warned users in chat windows not to give credit card number or password in chat, but never thanked me or gave credit. My publisher went out of business as a result. In the late 90s, they offered unlimited access before they had enough dial-up ports, resulting in a self-inflicted flood of dial-up traffic, which shut them down for weeks in many areas. In 1997, they ignored their own security policy and failed to secure their domain. The AOL domain was hi-jacked for about 48 hours, so that all AOL bound email failed for days or longer. Then there is the gift items -- shipped via US Mail, so that your neighbor could easily steal the package left on your front step. Their solution? They said, "Call Visa/MC and get a credit." Then pediphiles hired to moderate kid chat rooms, and engineers selling 90 Million AOL email addresses to spammers. Now, you have the non-stop credit card fraud (refusing to cancel is credit card fraud) and the privacy violations.
People need to start going to jail. AOL will NEVER comply with the law or their own policies. CTO Maureen Govern and Chief Executive Jon Miller need to be prosecuted, and this company needs to be taken over by a trustworthy third party (not Anderson), or acquired by a competitor. America deserves better than AOL, and I feel they need to be dissolved as a company.
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