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Ask HN: Use randomly generated email addresses for extra security?

1 pointsby PlanetFunkover 12 years ago
It seems that one attack vector used to hack accounts is based on the same email address being used on multiple sites. This would also go for email addresses using a simple algorithm (ie. news.ycombinator@somedomain.net for HN, facebook@somedomain.net at FB, etc).<p>In the age of keepass/lastpass etc, and on a scale of 1 to "tin foil hat", would it be better to use a randomly generated address for each site (ie. 46ia0ygd51tw9src@somedomain.net)?<p>Edit: This is using your own custom domain, and catch all email address. You could probably use gmail/hotmail accounts, but setting them up would be very annoying.

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w00kieover 12 years ago
With Gmail (at least) you can use john.smith+46ia0ygd51tw9src@gmail and it will get to you.
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