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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by m00dy on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:11PM (#13073083)
It requires manual interaction and obviously not scalable.
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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by mathrawka on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:31PM (#13073859)
It's pretty easy to automate an email harvester.

Then again just <firstname><lastname>@(gmail|yahoo|hotmail).com works for a lot of people.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by komali2 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:22PM (#13074358)
I'm convinced adding my middle initial to my email has been the most effective spam prevention technique I've implemented.
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