mailinatorguy
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:29PM (#14722270)
http://clickrouter.com
I built it because of a need and it's worked fabulously. It's hands down doubled my monthly affiliate revenue (i.e. to be clear, that's in the 4 figures).
I think where it failed however is that it's really hard to explain and I sure haven't cracked it. I get a few signups a day, few use it at all.
It's not for everyone - but it definitely works for me and it would work for anyone in the same boat (someone who needs to affiliatize hundreds/thousands of outgoing links)
Mailinator and the Recent Google Docs Phishing Attack
Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:21PM (#14260749)
Um. The TO address is [email protected]. Not the sender.
Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:02PM (#14260590)
It's my guess that Mailinator is extremely irrelevant to their plan.
They planned to propagate via BCC but they needed a "To:" address - preferably one that didn't bounce.
So they hit the "h" key awhile, then added @mailinator.com
Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:32PM (#14259776)
Mailinator here:
Yes, we sent the inbox to a blackhole but keep in mind, Mailinator does not and can not actually "Send" any email.
It's a receive-only service. As always, any email "from" @mailinator.com has had it's reply-to forged (which is pretty trivial).
Also - even before we blackholed the email, it's unlikely any email in that inbox (i.e. hhhh..) was read. Each box has a 50 email limit (FIFO) which was immediately overwhelmed. You couldn't click fast enough between seeing the inbox list and clicking an email.
Mailinator is simply a "receiver" in all of this but we have no indication our servers were otherwise involved.