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Basically a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463 Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to m
by eganist 10y ago
Basically a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463
Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to make sure I hadn't signed up for the service. Turns out I hadn't, but it was pitched on Product Hunt both in April 2015 and May 2016.
I'm hoping at least security folks made the mental connection that signing up meant compromising your personal emails. That's the single reason I didn't bother.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> signing up meant compromising your personal emails Assuming someone only signed up with their personal address. Curious how many .gov email addresses are in their database...
- CameronBanga 10y agoIt only works with major emails services like Gmail, Yahoo, etc, I believe.
- fmorel 10y agoPlenty of agencies on services like Google Apps for Government.
- Freak_NL 10y ago> Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to make sure I hadn't signed up for the service. Wouldn't you remember granting a third party full access to your email inbox? That doesn't seem like a trivial decision to make.
- jrimbault 10y agoPast you isn't future you. And checking is near free.
- eganist 10y agoI trust my brain but verify my memories from time to time. :)
- mikeash 10y agoFor someone who grew up before webmail existed, and where mail apps were a local thing, it's really easy to forget that granting a third-party app access to your e-mail often grants that access to a third-party company these days. It wasn't that long ago that the worst thing that would happen with a third-party mail client was that it would suck and you'd have to stop using it.