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

[Chamunks]

A hashed email address?  I'm not sure how that would work I did a bit of
digging around about mailinator but I don't see information about this.

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:24 PM Alex K <korobkin+kwl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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