[kwlug-disc] So I was auditing my accounts online and thought of something.

Alex K korobkin+kwl at gmail.com
Sun Dec 17 21:23:08 EST 2017


Mailinator and some other online mail providers (mail.ru, for example) have
a cool feature of hashed email address (or had, I didn't check it for a
while). For any address you can generate an obfuscated alias that no one
can resolve to the original address, except for the owner.


On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:

>
> Maybe register a fake company / random domain (my-lug-inc.com or
> 123456.net, etc.) and just register new, fake users when signing up for
> services.
>
> Johnifer at my-lug-inc.com, Sallithon at my-lug-inc.com, bobert at 123456.net, etc.
>
>
> At least it pollutes the matching process somewhat, and gives the best of
> the own-domain advantages plus the anonymization that comes with the fake
> names.
>
>
> r b
>
>
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