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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by doronlinder on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:27AM (#23068442)
Everything is randomised, nothing is based real data. It's auto generated from popular first names, last names, changing patterns and random years or numbers attached at the end. Domains are real, but randomised as well.
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by as1mov on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:14PM (#23069819)
It's kinda risky in my opinion. I just checked a few of the addresses (mostly the one's without any numbers at the end), some of them do actually belong to real people.
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by doronlinder on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#23070894)
I was aiming for a feeling of dealing with real data (even though it's not). Changing the email domain names to fictitious ones will solve this, but I think would undermine the feeling of real-ness.
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by henryfjordan on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:26PM (#23070812)
What's the risk? Your email address isn't exactly a secret...
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by as1mov on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:54AM (#23076932)
Well it's not exactly a risk, but people might get miffed their email is part of some website without their permission.

Also, in a rather grim coincidence, one of the emails I googled belonged to a person who had died in a car crash few years ago.

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