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This is incredibly dangerous. They say do not use this for "accounts you care about" but many people use the same or similar passwords and usernames across sev
by kwamenum86 18y ago
This is incredibly dangerous. They say do not use this for "accounts you care about" but many people use the same or similar passwords and usernames across several sites. If you register for a site and they send you your password in plain text via email (many sites still do this) you may have just opened the door wide open for any number of hackers using brute force attacks (except they can assume the set of permutations will be MUCH smaller.)
It is a cool service but if you use this you need to create a substantially different username and password to really be safe. Even if your login credentials are different someone can go through the password recovery process via email, reset it, and do whatever they want. Why would I want this to happen on ANY of my accounts? Even the ones I care least about need to be more secure than that.
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...but maybe the people who use these services are more intelligent than the average web user, are aware of the risks, and only associate these "throw-away" email addresses with throwaway accounts.
- jonknee 18y agoYou are aware there are lots of sites that do throwaway no-reg email right? Mailinator has been around for years and is incredibly popular.
- modoc 18y agoThat doesn't mean it's safe. There are disposable e-mail sites that do not allow others access to your mail (mine: 10MinuteMail.com is one of them, but there are others). Just because you want to dodge spam from sold lists, doesn't mean you should give up all your security.