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It will be interesting to see if these fake contacts show up in a leak somewhere someday. Almost like how people do myname+yourcompany@gmail.com, we could creat
by cyral 6y ago
It will be interesting to see if these fake contacts show up in a leak somewhere someday. Almost like how people do myname+yourcompany@gmail.com, we could create similarly fake contacts to see who is selling or leaking data.
- shervinafshar 6y ago*@myname.name
- _0ffh 6y agoYeah I've been using yourcompany@mydomain.tld for ages to track who's sold or fumbled my data. Since haveibeenpwned I can even approximately separate the two groups. Surprisingly up to now nearly all incidents (that I know of) have been breaches. Not that it makes it any better.
- atleta 6y agoSame here. Though people usually give me weird looks when I do this IRL and ask me "Is your email address really ourcompany@yourdomain.tld"?
- aylons 6y agoI had these weird looks, and I even got engaged in a nice conversation with an employee at a t-mobile store, but some people don't even bat an eye.
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