Email collect and spamm

[one2net]

One of my customer (puzzled by privacy issue) asked the following question:
Is it technically possible for a site to collect a visitor email address without his/her consent?
Providing it is possible, what language is it based on?

Many thanks for your input

PG
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[Maynard]

The less information which your browser has access to, the less it will be able to pass to a malicious site. In Netscape preferences, I have removed all identifying information and disabled its ability to launch ftp and telnet.

Browsers used to hand over their email addresses (used for responding to mailto: links) as a part of their environment variable set, but I think the later versions don't.

Beyond that, I've no confidence whatsoever in any security of Windows clients. It seems to me that far too much information is stored in a freely accessible registry.

Best practice for Win users: disable the scripting; hide IE; use Netscape bare of personal info; use a real text mode quality email client with good filtering (PMmail, the Bat)

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