Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address

Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by Shank on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:09PM (#5514993)

I use http://scr.im/ for this, and quite unlike something that advertises itself as a "condom for your email address," it has cute ladybugs instead.

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by sourceless on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:15PM (#5515029)

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.

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by jessriedel on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:34PM (#5515115)

If you're looking for wide appeal, the name seems unnecessarily risqué.

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by sourceless on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:37PM (#5515131)

Perhaps, I guess I'll find out

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by shloime on Monday April 08, 2013 @09:06PM (#5515824)

I think the name's great. I'll definitely remember it, and it's not obviously risque.

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by ozh on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @03:28AM (#5516878)

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 :)

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by chickopozo on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:45PM (#5515185)

This has existed for years: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

And your email isn't stored but rather encrypted and the ciphertext passed via the url.

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Re:Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address by chickopozo on Monday April 08, 2013 @06:47PM (#5515195)

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01eHy-6e8CKpz-d...

k is your id and c is the ciphertext the key is stored on their server.

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