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Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

Khao wrote: post #24
purephase wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you surprised? It's a free service. I assume that my data is for sale for every free service I use. Also, the parent is Intuit which, IMO, is not exactly tops when it comes to data security and privacy.

Because the point number 1 on their Privacy and Security Policy is "Your Privacy is not for sale" : https://www.mint.com/how-it-works/security/policy/ The way it is worded, it seems like your e-mail may be used by Intuit for promotion or by third-parties bound by the same privacy policies, but certainly not sold for spam.

Definitions vary, but I consider "third party promotions" to be spam.

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by michaelhoffman »

footrap wrote: post #72
res0nat0r wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those mods don't work for Dropbox, they are community volunteers who've just been given mod permissions.

That doesn't matter in the slightest. This is the company's OFFICIAL forum, and therefore the conduct of the appointed "moderators" reflects that of the company.

In the absence of any other information, any reasonable person would assume that the "Moderators" are Dropbox employees.

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by tokenadult »

danielweber wrote: post #34
Khao wrote: post #4

The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.

The way some people do "fredsmith+amazon@gmail.com" as proof that it must be amazon that leaks their passwords has some issues. The guy who says that he had a truly random bunch of letters as his dropbox account is probably a better indicator, but it's hard to know if the guy ever leaked it himself. Doesn't excuse the moderators being jerks, though.

When I try subaddressing as I try to sign up for new online services, more often than not that address format is rejected as invalid. Most online services don't have very good email validation.

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by res0nat0r »

footrap wrote: post #72
res0nat0r wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those mods don't work for Dropbox, they are community volunteers who've just been given mod permissions.

That doesn't matter in the slightest. This is the company's OFFICIAL forum, and therefore the conduct of the appointed "moderators" reflects that of the company.

Not if said person isn't actually employed by the company.

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by k3n »

Khao wrote: post #24
purephase wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you surprised? It's a free service. I assume that my data is for sale for every free service I use. Also, the parent is Intuit which, IMO, is not exactly tops when it comes to data security and privacy.

Because the point number 1 on their Privacy and Security Policy is "Your Privacy is not for sale" : https://www.mint.com/how-it-works/security/policy/ The way it is worded, it seems like your e-mail may be used by Intuit for promotion or by third-parties bound by the same privacy policies, but certainly not sold for spam.

> [...] it seems like your e-mail may be used by Intuit for promotion or by third-parties bound by the same privacy policies, but certainly not sold for spam

Same difference in my book. If you are not the original entity that I supplied my address to, and I get email from some 3rd party, that's SPAM. Sure, you could argue that it's in the T&C and that I "agreed" to it, but it's still SPAM the way I see it. And since it's a 3rd party, then that'd mean my information was sold (or otherwise bartered/traded).

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by reader_1000 »

I checked my e-mail accout that I used for dropbox and There is a spam mail coming from ...@direct.nacha.org which is the same domain which one of the customer in forum received. So it seems they are right, this is not a random guess.

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by pfranz »

jaibot wrote: post #78
Mahn wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of which, this alias system from google is great in theory, but kind of pointless in practice; spammers can easily figure out they can just remove everything from the + sign, including the sign itself, and boom, they have my address without the specific alias.

It's pointless in practice in theory; in practice in practice spammers (in my experience) don't target + aliases. And if you think about the set of people who are likely to give money to spammers, the set of people using + aliases, and the fraction of + alias space that is occupied versus the fraction of non-+'aliased space that is occupied, the reason why becomes clear.

I've tried to use this system in the past, but found it to be a PITA. A lot of email systems won't let you use a +. The other gotcha I get is that they use the email address as a login token (Dropbox, for example). So you have to remember a) that you used a token and b) what it was. Any suggestions on approaching these?

Re: Why was my email leaked?

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Post by revelation »

inovica wrote: post #12

Unfortunately I have seen their customer service go downhill recently. Not sure if they are having capacity problems or something. 2 weeks ago I signed up for a trial of Dropbox Teams and it said that after the trial I would be dropped back to my Pro account. I cancelled the trial as had made my mind up not to do it and it dropped me to a free account. Several emails to support, the account manager I'd been provided…

From this forum "experience", it seems they have copied the Google model of service. They offer the support forum as a major source of support and promote heavy users to moderators or give them some other special flair. Mind you, normal users, without any inside access, information or capabilities. These users then spend their time flagging down support requests and blaming the posters.
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