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Re:800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification ... by qrbLPHiKpiux on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:18PM (#19334584)
Email is inherently weak and should not be used for anything sensitive. It’s weak by design.
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Re:800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification ... by dredmorbius on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:24AM (#19335789)
"Should not be" and "is not, ever" are, unfortunately, two wildly different world states.

The fact is that email is often the keys to the kingdom, if compromised, or the baited hook to be used in phishing. With consequences which have had globally-significant consequences, to date.

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