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Love the anecdotes at the bottom. I’ll add two of my own: - Sent myself a photo from a Southern Californian theme park that starts with "D" and ends with a fir
by alanh 10y ago
Love the anecdotes at the bottom. I’ll add two of my own:
- Sent myself a photo from a Southern Californian theme park that starts with "D" and ends with a fireworks show, using a custom email address: No third-party spam, but my god their "unsubscribe" links (NOT that I ever subscribed) just don’t work, I got a promotion for everything vaguely Disney-related for a year until I blocked the address completely. Whoops, gave this one away!
- Signed up for a famous freemium file-syncing service whose name also starts with "D" using a custom email address, never used for anything else; that ended up in the hands of spammers.
- Jaruzel 10y ago> Signed up for a famous freemium file-syncing service whose name also starts with "D" using a custom email address, never used for anything else; that ended up in the hands of spammers. Wasn't just me then. I /know/ I never used that particular address for anything else as it was specific to the D___Box service. Yet within 2 months, started getting lots of spam on it. I don't recall that company getting data breached, so totally unclear how that happened.
- alanh 10y agoI’ve been working on the assumption that a massive breach did happen, but was never announced (perhaps not even discovered internally).
- trickster_ 10y agoThe same happened to the address that I gave to the D-freemium file-syncing service... Never used that address anywhere else.