Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
by sourceless on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:15PM
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Cool, the angle I'm planning to go for is the one Nikolas0 mentioned - an API and plugins so that it can be integrated into things like blogs and forums easily.
Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
by ozh on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @03:28AM
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Before anyone goes down the "omg scr.im is so easy to brute force" route: yes -- by design.
I wanted a very simple tool to easily share email addresses that would defeat dumb mail harvesters, not a cyber bunker with undecypherable recaptcha crap that would annoy the hell out of users. Plus, yes, ladybug :)
Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
by mccolin on Monday April 08, 2013 @05:29PM
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Pretty cool idea. Was hoping it would instead spit out an obfuscated or dummy email address I could use on forms and signups which would proxy (perhaps for a limited time only) to my real email address.
Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
by rogerbinns on Monday April 08, 2013 @10:04PM
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Are spam filters really that bad? I've had my email address in plain sight for well over a decade - no munging or similar tricks, even using a mailto url - and my domain is a catchall. Spamassassin plus RBL works just fine for me.
My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either.
What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?
Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
by artursapek on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:36PM
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"Removes the need for munging"
with a more complicated process. I've never found a "munged" email address hard to read. Also, how do they have to prove they're human? That would be good to see on the splash page.
I wanted a very simple tool to easily share email addresses that would defeat dumb mail harvesters, not a cyber bunker with undecypherable recaptcha crap that would annoy the hell out of users. Plus, yes, ladybug :)
And your email isn't stored but rather encrypted and the ciphertext passed via the url.
k is your id and c is the ciphertext the key is stored on their server.
My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either.
What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?
with a more complicated process. I've never found a "munged" email address hard to read. Also, how do they have to prove they're human? That would be good to see on the splash page.
`$ send_condoms --amount 2 --size normal`