Re: Marketscore and Higher Ed

[Dick Jacobson <Dick.Jacobson () NDSU NODAK EDU>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Eric Pancer wrote:

.. and you will notice that the Admin Contact is the same as the Tech
Contact  which is the same as the Organization.  Makes it look like one
phone line (oops .. the fax number is Washington state) and one email
address.

> Joel Rosenblatt wrote on Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:42:09 -0500...
>
> > Just for the record, I contacted the GC office at Ernst & Young when we
> > first started looking into Marketscore.  They have certified that the
> > connection between the client computer and the Marketscore servers meet the
> > requirements for their WebTrust logo.  They had no official comment on what
> > the MarketScore company was doing, since that was not what they were asked
> > to check on.  They basically certified that when you "sign up" for the
> > MarketScore service, your data is safe.
>
> Safe from who? Here's something fun:
>
> $ whois marketscore.com
>
> [snip]
>
>    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
>       Marketscore Inc
>       Marketscore Inc
>       11465 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 200
>       Reston, VA 20190
>       US
>       Phone: 312-775-6648
>
> Hmm, they're in Virginia, yet have a Chicagoland telephone number.
>
> Better yet, I'm 99% sure that's a cell phone number. And I've never
> seen a company only offer email support for any reputable product
> (sure, there's a few, but in reality, if you want to call a person,
> you usually can).
>
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