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Re:800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification ... by easytiger on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:36AM (#19336237)
sadly using elite hacking skills this is easily circumvented

    p0wn3r $cat  testerm
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    
    p0wn3r $cat  testerm | sed 's/+.*@/@/'
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
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Re:800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification ... by chii on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:43PM (#19343685)
and so if you set up your email filters right, you can find out who is doing this sort sort of "hacking" to get your real email address. What you do afterwards is up to you.
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Re:800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification ... by easytiger on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:01AM (#19366651)
By definition, if someone is offloading your data to a 3rd party and they sanitise the addrs, then you can't tell.
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