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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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[–] 6 points 10 months ago

I am confused about how this differs significantly from someone mistyping their e-mail address so that they end up instead typing in someone else's active e-mail address, because in both cases e-mails get sent to the wrong person.

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