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A comment on Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach. Parent comment

Re:Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach by j7ake on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:42AM (#15422769)
I don't see the benefit of using [email protected] if the point is to obscure your email address
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Re:Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach by zeristor on Saturday October 07, 2017 @06:38AM (#15423227)
Not everyone realises that'+' is a valid character in an email address, at least not when I tried this several years ago.
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Re:Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach by edp on Saturday October 07, 2017 @04:48AM (#15422953)
If you don't want bots to try email+password from a leak on a bunch of websites, it's good enough, but I agree on the fact that it won't hide your identity.
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