Bear.net, what is going on with the site?
Good question.
Before I answer that question, I want to express my thanks to all of you that emailed, sent cards and called. Your concern and well wishing is greatly appreciated. Right now I am in the process of deciding if I will completely re-vamp the site at this time, or bring the site back online as it was before. Now is the time for you to submit your suggestions. And for those jerks that sent the nasty and harassing emails, you can go screw yourselves.Some people seem to be confused
While I have received some very nice emails, I have also received some nasty emails from people that seem to think I owe them something (e.g. giving them this domain). Almost every one of these emails demands that we give the domain to them so they can "do the job right" or similar sentiment. Well folks, I don't owe you this domain. If you seem to think you deserve to own this domain, I will sell the domain (but no content) to you for $10,000,000.00 - yes, 10 million dollars. If you don't have that amount of money readily available, do not bother emailing me insisting that I sell or give you the domain. Oh, and if you do have that amount of money available and wish to contact us, take the time to look up the domain contact information and email to that address. Emailing to "webmaster" will not get you to where you need to be.The Bear Stearns Companies Inc is violating your privacy! (and now their new owners - JPMorganChase or whatever lame ass name they are going by today)
Bear Stearns or one of their subsidiaries, your privacy may have been violated. Since at least 1998, Bear Stearns) has knowingly allowed (and it would seem, encouraged) their employees to send email to, and give out the the bear.net domain as if it belonged to them. Why do I say this? Simple, for many years now, on a daily basis I receive emails intended for people at bear.com. I have even called some of these employees when I receive their email to let them know of the problem. To this day, no action has been taken by the people at Bear Stearns.What kind of emails do I receive? Some examples below:
- Loan documents (some with complete personal data including SSN)
- Foreclosure documents
- Property Appraisals
- Meeting Notes
- Usernames and passwords for Bear Stearns back end systems
- Resumes (Bear Stearns has run employment ads with the wrong domain)
- Mandatory Diversity training signups for Bear Stearns employees
Since the powers that be at Bear Stearns refuse to take any action on this issue to resolve this problem (it has cost me a great deal of time, money and resources over the years dealing with their stupid employees), I have decided to start publishing a great deal of this information.
Now I fully suspect that some dickwad at Bear Stearns will complain and point out that some of the emails publish contain a disclaimer that they think prevents me from publishing their emails. Well, here is the deal. You sent the email to my domain, therefore I must be the intended recipient - otherwise, why did you send it to me? Further, our Terms of Service has always indicated that any emails sent to this domain become our property and we reserve the right to do anything we want with such content. Considering our TOS was published well before Bear Stearns ever used internet email, and considering their corporate office is well aware of this issue (and has been for at least 10 years as of this writing) they really don't have a leg to stand on.
If you are a customer of Bear Stearns or any of their divisions, such as EMC mortgage, I suggest you call your contact there and ask them why they are not taking steps to protect your private data?
