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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by Arainach on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:00PM (#43030200)
You think that being able to get someone's email address (most likely a business email but let's pretend it's a personal email) has a 1 in 5,000 chance of being turned into enough personal information to track down AND that someone would use it to kill someone?

Millions of usernames and emails are leaked every month; if this was the case you'd be seeing these murders in the news every week.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by mlyle on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:18PM (#43032608)
> Millions of usernames and emails are leaked every month; if this was the case you'd be seeing these murders in the news every week.

Yes, because all possible scenarios kill the same fraction of people-- whether we're talking about getting a dump of a million email addresses or giving some nutjob a chance to unmask people he doesn't like online.

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