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tjames7000

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    Comment #49027418

    Here are some more details: https://easyoptouts.com/guides/apple-hide-my-email-was-leaki...

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    Comment #49027412

    Here are some more details: https://easyoptouts.com/guides/apple-hide-my-email-was-leaki...

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    Comment #49001263

    We don't have full headers, unfortunately. I'm not very familiar with SMTP, but to test things out, we ended up running a minimal custom mail server with the nodejs 'net' module to…

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    Comment #49000138

    Okay, I see what you mean. We never paid attention to whether (1) was happening. I imagine Apple can tell based on the code that was running at the time. Even in case (1), isn't it…

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    Comment #48999747

    We saw the issue for a wide variety of hidden address domains. We use Mailgun to send emails so we were seeing Mailgun logs with things like this. I replaced the customer's real em…

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    Comment #48998807

    We'll publish more details soon. In short, emails that triggered 550 5.7.1 or 552 5.7.0 were what we saw the most. 550 5.1.1 was also a problem in the real world, but not possible …

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    Comment #48751435

    We're hoping that by notifying people that there's a vulnerability, people can stop using Hide My Email if it matters to them. I don't think that disclosing the exploit method will…

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    Comment #48751153

    > > “It seems that ending new sales of Hide My Email until the problem is fixed would be an effective way to limit the number of customers at risk. Is that an option?” Murphy wrote…

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    Comment #48750830

    I've been going back and forth with Apple about it for a year. We don't feel comfortable releasing the exploit details even though they're being slow. We think enough people rely o…

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    Comment #48748089

    We put up a timeline of the disclosure here: https://easyoptouts.com/guides/apple-hide-my-email-is-leakin...

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    Comment #39843277

    I co-founded easyoptouts.com a few years ago because all of the existing options were way too expensive. We focus on publicly-accessible people-search sites. Our customers are happ…

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    Comment #39843243

    easyoptouts.com, which I work on, doesn't use manual labor - everything is automated! It's definitely important to avoid giving more people access to the data. edit: and as a resul…