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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by glandium on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:53PM (#15396900)
They can, but in practice, they don't.
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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by throwaway613834 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:40PM (#15397157)
> They can, but in practice, they don't.

And you're confident of this how? I'm not actually convinced this is true. It's definitely a widespread belief though.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by glandium on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:44PM (#15397186)
Because I'm using the + thing, and I'm still receiving spam to the +ed addresses.
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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by throwaway613834 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:28AM (#15398256)
Weird, I've done that for a long time too and hardly any received spam to those at all. Good to know though, thanks.
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