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For any of you using Spoke.com (a business networking website), beware! Using their free service requires downloading a toolbar that will be installed into your browser. Once installed, the toolbar actually copies all the information from your e-mail address book and saves it into the Spoke.com database for Spoke’s own use.

Basically, Spoke.com steals the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of everyone in your address book and then sells them for a nice little profit to direct marketing companies.

Horrible stuff. Stay away from Spoke.com.