Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service

Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by bfdm on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:15PM (#21651626)

Because disposable emails are trivially used by casual users and companies see phone number as harder to falsify (correctly, IMO). It's not impossible, obviously. We know SMS can be hijacked and spoofed, but the casual user won't be doing this, today.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by bscphil on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:49PM (#21652955)

If the point of requiring an ID is to prevent abuse, why do I care about what casual users are doing? What I care about is preventing signups from people who want to abuse the service, but presumably making things harder on casual users doesn't work toward that goal.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by brokenmachine on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:57PM (#21653007)

Still, it raises the bar.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by gyuserbti on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:14AM (#21664144)

But why phone? Why not something more specifically set up for the purpose, like Google authenticator or 2fa keys?

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