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This looks like it might be your personal email. Consider protecting yourself by making a temporary email for the purposes of your research such as booktitle@gm
by jamisonbryant 9y ago
This looks like it might be your personal email. Consider protecting yourself by making a temporary email for the purposes of your research such as booktitle@gmail.com.
- untog 9y agoJournalists tend to want people to be able to contact them. The spam etc. is just the cost of doing business.
- Eilene 9y agocompletely true.
- kakarot 9y agoOr better, consider protecting those offering their experiences as well by using an encrypted email provider like protonmail, or offering a GPG key.
- Eilene 9y agoI don't know what those are, I'm sorry. I'm not in the industry (software engineering/tech) so am not familiar with those (though I know they exist). Is it something I can do in the next hour?
- joshfraser 9y agoA good tool for every journalist to have in their tool chest: https://keybase.io https://keybase.io
- RandomCSGeek 9y agoI'd suggest going through https://www.privacytools.io/#email https://www.privacytools.io/#email. These providers won't give your data to NSA or third party companies(or at least this is more likely, than with another provider like google). Given you are asking for some sensitive data, I'd suggest you use one of these, at least for this specific project if you can't make the move completely.
- Eilene 9y agoI appreciate the caution, thank you. That email is what gets funneled from my website, so it's fine. It's not my personal personal email. It's for the book.