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If you're using a password manager to randomly generate long, secure passwords, the email address shouldn't matter much. The only potential issue would be socia

If you're using a password manager to randomly generate long, secure passwords, the email address shouldn't matter much. The only potential issue would be social engineering to gain access to the account, but seeing how most people use the same email everywhere, I would think you'd have to a potential target for that to be of concern.

cm2187 8y ago
There are good reasons to provide unique aliases to companies requesting an email: - if they start sending you spam you can severe their capacity to contact you by deleting the alias - if they give your contact to a third party, you know from the alias who leaked your email address - if you see an email on a data breach like this one, you know immediately which website got hacked - it makes it really hard to correlate your identity across two websites
- FabHK 8y ago
  Agreed. And it's so easy to set up when you have your own domain, I'm somewhat surprised not more people are doing it. Oh well.
  - wingworks 8y ago
    It would be cool if there was something like this built into a password manager
    - majikandy 8y ago
      There is, it will save off whichever username you use when you sign up eg facebook@domain.com - works well for me.
- stanmancan 8y ago
  I don't disagree with providing unique emails to various services, I just don't think that _randomstring_@your-domain.com is better than myspace@your-domain.com than. I actually think it's worse, since it's more difficult to identify when an email is coming from the wrong place. If I get an email to myspace@domain.com and it's not from MySpace, I know right away. That's not as immediately obvious if I get an email to a random string.
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