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Post by eth0up »

jspash wrote: post #286
donohoe wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use my lastname [at] gmail (same as my HN username). Over the years, I’ve received all sorts of misdirected messages: medical, financial, support, even real estate documents. When it seems important, I do my best to contact the sender and let them know. What I’ve learned is that “no-reply” email addresses can cause real harm in situations where it’s critical to reach an actual person.

I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken. Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?

Unused they have a half-life. Google Voice numbers much more aggressively so.

It's somewhere in the document.

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Post by zeroq »

Reminds me of CV lcamtuf published on his website shortly after leaving Google. A single page that mainly said: "my name is Zalewski, yes, that Zalewski".

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Post by dspillett »

Atlas667 wrote: post #266
torben-friis wrote: post #226

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Discuss it as in “there’s elections in Argentina, let’s see how we react to the change of administration”. Not as in “I will replace Argentina’s president”. At least the titles/descriptions didn’t contain anything to consider pulling a Snowden about it.

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> You're being naive. This is exactly what they do.

You are being knee-jerk judgemental.

They didn't say those things don't happen, just that it didn't appear the comms they received by mistake looked like less sinister interactions with the political world.

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Post by dahart »

eru wrote: post #199
catoc wrote: post #180

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Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness

What are you talking about? If you send emails from eg GMail to Gmail, it's fairly secure.

Why’s that even relevant if the recipient is the wrong address? Email isn’t particularly secure anywhere, and gmail has forwarding and IMAP and aliases and other services that send emails outside of gmail. But sending sensitive documents to the wrong recipient, which was the topic that started this sub-thread, is a case where it does not matter how secure your servers are.

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Post by Grazester »

zukzuk wrote: post #166
bertil wrote: post #115

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…

I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

My address is the same. Someone with my name thinks their email address is firstlast@gmail.com

Its annoying especially since we have the same bank and they are not very good at paying their credit card on time. I therefore get their bank emails. Initially It will always have me confused as weight wait. I don't have any balance on my credit card. Was this fraud?

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Post by ChoGGi »

rebewhd wrote: post #275

Similar situation here. My name is far from unique, but it's not common either. My best known impersonator is a prolific sci-fi author. Whenever I'm introduced to someone and they perk up at my name, it's almost guaranteed that they're fans of that author. Then I have to disappoint them... Still, it's a good conversation starter.

I'm more interested in what your opinion on their works is? Are you a fan of yourselfsake?

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Post by layer8 »

withinboredom wrote: post #233
layer8 wrote: post #215

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People wouldn’t be fond of their name divulging exactly how old they are.

I mean, it’s not hard to guess how old people are…

It’s hard for that guess to be accurate, though. Some people look ten years older or younger than they really are.

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Post by roywiggins »

jspash wrote: post #286
donohoe wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use my lastname [at] gmail (same as my HN username). Over the years, I’ve received all sorts of misdirected messages: medical, financial, support, even real estate documents. When it seems important, I do my best to contact the sender and let them know. What I’ve learned is that “no-reply” email addresses can cause real harm in situations where it’s critical to reach an actual person.

I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken. Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?

After two years of inactivity:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

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Post by stackskipton »

catoc wrote: post #180
baubino wrote: post #160

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I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting email…

Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness

And I worked IT for legal firm, if we were not sending documents over email, we would get replaced by the client.

I spent 3 months on secure document transfer portal system, got scrapped after 4 months because clients wanted their forms as Word/PDF and they wanted them without hopping through any hoops.

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