Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people

Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by craigds on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:18AM (#11730859)

I don't see the point of using honeywords. I mean, I've used them a bit, but any spammer is going to strip them immediately, so they're useless for identifying which provider leaked your address, right? And now to login, you need to remember the honeyword you used to register, which is a big inconvenience for anyone not using a password manager. (Use a password manager!)

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by Jtsummers on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:42AM (#11731046)

If you primarily use honeywords, then you can filter out anything going to [email protected] as spam. The hard part would be transitioning people you want to communicate with to craigds+{family,friends,correspondence}@host.tld.

Optionally, retain [email protected] for personal and professional communication/correspondence, and move everything else to craigds1+{something}@host.tld (or a different host).

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by cmdrfred on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:06PM (#11731221)

I just bought an entire TLD for signups/spam and made it a catchall. One positive is I know when companies are breached often before they announce it as my [email protected] told me a little while ago.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/31/incident_managers_pa...

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by cs2818 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:05PM (#11735336)

I've used the same strategy for the past few years with great results. Like you said it's really nice to see early on which companies are leaking your info.

It's also nice to be able to kill specific email addresses once a breach has been disclosed and the spam becomes plentiful.

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by Abundnce10 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:01PM (#11732780)

This is a great idea! What's it like viewing email? Which client do you use? Is it easy to see which email address the email was sent to?

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by cmdrfred on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:32PM (#11734054)

Viewing email is as you would expect, the email they sent to is in the header so it's just a single click away in Thunderbird.

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by tome on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:30AM (#11737573)

Wait, did you really mean "TLD", or just "domain"?

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