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Of course they can, why is this news? If you intend to use it anonymously why would you set a recovery email to something that identifies you?
by andersa 3y ago
Of course they can, why is this news? If you intend to use it anonymously why would you set a recovery email to something that identifies you?
- dgellow 3y agoIt’s “news” because someone wanted to share it.
- codetrotter 3y agoEven the guy that ran Silk Road messed up and provided his email address with his real name online while posting about Silk Road before almost anyone had heard about Silk Road. This would later come back to bite him. > In that post, altoid asked for some programming help and gave his email address: rossulbricht@gmail.com. Doing a Google search for Ross Ulbricht, Mr. Alford found a young man from Texas who, just like Dread Pirate Roberts, admired the free-market economist Ludwig von Mises and the libertarian politician Ron Paul — the first of many striking parallels Mr. Alford discovered that weekend. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-unsung-tax-agent-who-put-a-face-on-the-silk-road.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-uns... I don’t doubt for a second that a non-zero number of people similarly create a ProtonMail address for something shady and then provide a Gmail address using their real name as recovery address.
- blactuary 3y agoAlso, most recent tweet from that account blaming a Boeing jet hardware failure on diversity initiatives https://twitter.com/monetaryreset/status/1766156285249012151 https://twitter.com/monetaryreset/status/1766156285249012151