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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by raws on Monday November 04, 2013 @06:07AM (#6667946)
no need to download it if you just want to check yourself: http://adobe.cynic.al/

props to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661774

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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by tambourine_man on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:25AM (#6668317)
I'm a bit worried of submitting my email to this form. Shouldn't I be?
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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by kfk on Monday November 04, 2013 @06:45AM (#6668040)
Thanks, apparently I am on there. I don't remember how, I never used any of the Adobe crap. Well, changed the password anyway.
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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by nodata on Monday November 04, 2013 @06:38AM (#6668017)
"[email protected] was found. You need to change your passwords now."
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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by DanBC on Monday November 04, 2013 @07:09AM (#6668109)
[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Were all found.

I feel sorry for the people paying a lot of money to buy these short domain names, and finding huge amounts of spam being delivered to them because people have misused domain names that don't belong to them.

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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by p4bl0 on Monday November 04, 2013 @07:31AM (#6668172)
Actually example.com is reserved for test usage and this kind of things. You are right for the two others thought.
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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by DanBC on Monday November 04, 2013 @07:44AM (#6668208)
But using example on someone else's website to avoid using your own email address is not using it in documentation. .invalid would be a better choice.

I agree that I'm quibbling over probably unimportant details :-)

http://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by hnha on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:37AM (#6668382)
on the other hand, you get a lot of free accounts and private information. I own a domain that was once used as webmail for a couple of hundred people I guess. Looking through the catchall is awkward and invasive...
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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by Sami_Lehtinen on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:55AM (#6669244)
Technically message won't get delivered if it's rejected on SMTP envelope level.
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