Re:Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
by crummy on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:20AM
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"If you don't like to specify your full email address for any reason, you can replace up to 3 characters with asterisk sign (e.g., for [email protected] enter myac*[email protected]), thus we'll show you a count of matches for this pattern. We respect your privacy."
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Re:Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
by the_af on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:44AM
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Only up to 3 characters? Why 3? Especially since it's an email address and not a random string, which limits the possibilities for the 3 missing characters. This looks like it's giving more info than you'd think to a dodgy website...