Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
by phpisthebest on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:16PM
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>>Think about it for a second
Perhaps instead of telling everyone to think on things for a second, you should think on things for longer than a second?
>And how vulnerable are you to phishing if your special-purpose email address that you only use for one specific purpose receives zero spam?
This would depend on how you setup the email address, if it truly a separate email address i.e a separate account not just an alias then phishing is not the concern but management of the accounts becomes a huge problem
I use separate alias's for every service against my own custom domain that has a single email account. This is not to prevent phishing but to detect when a breach occurred or when my info is sold, you assume that when you sign up for a service only that service will ever have access to your info, many many many companies and service sell your email address to marketers.
Perhaps instead of telling everyone to think on things for a second, you should think on things for longer than a second?
>And how vulnerable are you to phishing if your special-purpose email address that you only use for one specific purpose receives zero spam?
This would depend on how you setup the email address, if it truly a separate email address i.e a separate account not just an alias then phishing is not the concern but management of the accounts becomes a huge problem
I use separate alias's for every service against my own custom domain that has a single email account. This is not to prevent phishing but to detect when a breach occurred or when my info is sold, you assume that when you sign up for a service only that service will ever have access to your info, many many many companies and service sell your email address to marketers.