An online conversation I witnessed yesterday reminded me of the existence of two distinct but related grating Internet personas:
- The type of guy (it's always a man) boasting that their email address has never been featured in haveibeenpwned.com and indirectly shaming people for signing up with popular providers like Adobe or Patreon.
- The type of guy (it's always a man) challenging you to guess their personal email address as a reason not to allow usernames in the login field of an authentication form.
Kids, don't be like these two.
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silverwizard
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •Bragging about never using services? Bragging about only using services obscure enough they don't get reported when the user data is stolen?
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan Only two emails have been compromised since I started hosting my own email
The email address my dad manages for me is in 9 lists, but it's also been around since highschool so got used on a lot of things
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in reply to Martijn Vos • •@Martijn Vos @Hypolite Petovan Yeah - I just give them `companyname`@`whateverdomainIuse` so it looks like a real email to the regex
But I have been told I can't have their company name in my email before
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