• takeheart@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Here’s a neat trick that works with some providers: you can include a + sign and an extra string of characters and it will still be delivered to the same address. Example:

    user083+some-online-shop@provider.net will receive the mail for user083@provider.net. So you can register with a different email address everywhere yet it all goes to the same account. If your account gets leaked or breached you’ll know where it happened thanks to the extra information behind the +.

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        7 months ago

        You can narrow it down by length. Not perfect but it’s a start. Unless the *****s are always the same length like in some password fields. Hard to tell from the message.

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          7 months ago

          It’s not a good method is it? It relies on others not being really stupid

          Oh hay Lets just make they reacted paid rise same length render tone, since that is real really easy.