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I signed up for a disposable Gmail account using my real name at one point, and accepted the randomly suggested address it offered. Gmail loaded with someone el
by dmw_ng 7y ago
I signed up for a disposable Gmail account using my real name at one point, and accepted the randomly suggested address it offered. Gmail loaded with someone else's obviously in use mailbox
IIRC I logged out again and back in, same thing, my credentials worked. Went back to it a few days later and the password no longer worked
- wizzwizz4 7y agoHash collisions most likely.
- ta999999171 7y agoHave heard this so many times about Gmail... How have they not resolved this?
- joncrane 7y agoI think it's like EC2 instance IDs. When they first came up with it, they never thought there would be literally billions of unique email addresses/EC2 instances eventually.