Sex Lube Maker Finds Personal Info Quite Slippery

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

Tue, Apr 24th 2007 4:21pm — Carlo Longino

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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josh, 24 Apr 2007 @ 4:50pm

Of course they couldn't keep a hold of it...
...it just slipped out of their hands.

What can you say, they make a quality product!
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Jason, 24 Apr 2007 @ 5:02pm

Wow how did that slip though the cracks?
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Sal, 24 Apr 2007 @ 5:10pm

I bet they're experts with slippery situations like this.
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Gamenac, 24 Apr 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, 24 Apr 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, 24 Apr 2007 @ 6:18pm

they need to get some virtual tissues...
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Xenohacker@hotmail.com, 24 Apr 2007 @ 6:24pm

Sorry Grandma
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, 24 Apr 2007 @ 7:55pm

Re: Sorry Grandma
> 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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Anonny, 24 Apr 2007 @ 8:28pm

Re: Re: Sorry Grandma
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, 24 Apr 2007 @ 9:29pm

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>Well, what if granny and grampa both lubed up

This is the start of a very slippery slope....
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Smilin' Bob, 24 Apr 2007 @ 11:13pm

Now that's what I call a sticky situation...
Cash is King, baby!
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James, 25 Apr 2007 @ 7:46am

Good thing...
... I use Gun Oil :-p
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bobby joe wilson, 25 Apr 2007 @ 10:49am

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

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