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Re:Quora User Data Compromised by wpietri on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:15PM (#18595407)
Yeah, I tag every email address I give to a vendor, and I have for years. It has helped me discover a number of breaches.

The address I gave Quora isn't in the hands of spammers yet, which is a mildly good sign. But normally it takes a while for an address to get out to the bottom-feeders, so we'll see.

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Re:Quora User Data Compromised by halvardssm on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:14AM (#18600086)
> Yeah, I tag every email address I give to a vendor, and I have for years. It has helped me discover a number of breaches.

Can you go into detail on this? What exactly do you mean by tagging? Just wondering in case I want to do the same.

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Re:Quora User Data Compromised by wpietri on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:17AM (#18600109)
There are a few ways to do it, but I use what is known as subaddressing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
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