In a damage control move, the telecom regulator Trai has altered email IDs of all stakeholders who responded to its consultation paper on framework for over-the-top players like Viber, WhatsApp and net neutrality.
After facing flak for making public 10 lakh email IDs on its website, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) resorted to ‘munging’ of all addresses to check spammers from automatically copying these IDs.
The address munging is done to make it tedious for spammers or cybercriminals from copying email ID for automatically sending e-mails.
In address munging, the e-mail IDs are changed by replacing symbols like @ to (at) and a ‘.’ to (dot).
