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easytiger on March 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verifi...

sadly using elite hacking skills this is easily circumvented

    p0wn3r $cat  testerm
    test@gmail.com
    foo+netflix@gmail.com
    foo+ycombinator@gmail.com
    foo+amazon@wizmail.com
    
    p0wn3r $cat  testerm | sed 's/+.*@/@/'
    test@gmail.com
    foo@gmail.com
    foo@gmail.com
    foo@wizmail.com

chii on March 9, 2019 [–]

and so if you set up your email filters right, you can find out who is doing this sort sort of "hacking" to get your real email address. What you do afterwards is up to you.

easytiger on March 12, 2019 | [–]

By definition, if someone is offloading your data to a 3rd party and they sanitise the addrs, then you can't tell.

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