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Checking your email address in such sites looks like a great way to collect email addresses
by m00dy 10y ago
Checking your email address in such sites looks like a great way to collect email addresses
- mathrawka 10y agoHey Eren, It's not like that email addresses are that hard to find when they are listed on websites publically... ereny*gdir*n[@AT]gm*il
- bisby 10y agoIndeed. Literally all you are providing to the site is an email address. I could check my coworkers' email addresses. They have a list, I'm checking to see if something is on the list. Any site that requires you to provide an email address and password (or any other "verifiable info") to check is probably a scam.
- m00dy 10y agoIt requires manual interaction and obviously not scalable.
- steelbird 10y agoFine print: "Check Point will not collect, store, or use your email address for any other purpose."
- m00dy 10y agoIt is just a text. How do you know ?
- bisby 10y agoWhat is the downside of someone having your email address, especially with no other context. If they have other data on your email address, they don't need your email address to do anything with it. If they don't have other data, then there's no issue. You're not concerned about people having public access to your twitter handle, why would you be concerned about people having public access to your email address.
- m00dy 10y agoWell, they at least know my email address and my interest for android phones. Am I only one thinking that It is so easy to sell the whole list to a Chinese manufacturer ?
- awqrre 10y agoThey also probably have the http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com referrer, among other things.
- mcbits 10y agoA list of emails + IP addresses would be valuable to web surveillance companies that already have trails of data for the IP addresses and emails separately.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoTwitter handle is public. Email addy can be private.
- bisby 10y agoUnless you use your email for ONLY signing up for accounts online, the entire purpose of email addresses is for other people to have them.