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> Some of the obvious risk factors include: > Is the email address a company domain or a consumer email like Gmail? Do you actually expect people to use their
by NullPrefix 3y ago
> Some of the obvious risk factors include:
> Is the email address a company domain or a consumer email like Gmail?
Do you actually expect people to use their work email for personal purposes?
- Entinel 3y agoI used to work in IT and one of my responsibilities was managing the company email and TONS of people used their work email for personal stuff. At least 1/3 of the company.
- ilyt 3y agoRighjt but they are talking about site's customer base. Most people have e-mail hosted on some big provider
- smegger001 3y agowhat do these people expect to happen if they change jobs and loose access to their accounts?
- NullPrefix 3y agoYou don't lose your account in some service just because you lost the email it was created with. Sure, previous employer could takeover your account by resetting password, but do you really expect them to do that?
- wmf 3y agoMagic. No, seriously.
- Scoundreller 3y agoDrives me even more bonkers when it's a gov or quasi-gov organization where anyone with a few dollars could get a copy of everything. Then there's the stuff that can come out of private sector in a lawsuit.
- jamesfinlayson 3y agoI see this all too often in customer data at work too.
- duskwuff 3y agoMux is a video broadcast infrastructure provider, not a sports streaming web site. The vast majority of their users are expected to be businesses.
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- faeriechangling 3y agoI absolutely expect people to use their work email for personal purposes.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoThe problem is that the word "expect" in English is overloaded: sometimes it basically just means to predict, other times it implies what you think someone should be doing.