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Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying (nerds.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months 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

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