Privacy

2926 readers

194 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

danielintempesta@programming.dev

Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying (nerds.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you read the article? These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade. It's in the very first line.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope, I didn't, thank you for correcting me :)

I'm a lot better about reading the article than I used to be but sometimes I still don't and just wanna chat about stuff with folks, and in this case that's my bad