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submitted 3 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 3 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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