How do I report Hide My Email abuse? Someone used it to send a nasty email to my company. I couldn’t figure out how to report it. My guess is there is no way to do it and there won’t be until after some reporters make it the Apple scandal of the week when there’s no other news.
An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
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#102Apple provides data on iCloud subscribers to the police without search warrants or probable cause over 20k times every year(!) (under FAA 702, aka PRISM), because the US federal government illegally demands it and Apple has no ability to really stop them without their staff going to jail (thanks to the government's secret interpretations of what FAA 702 really means). Much of the data in iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted (including the keys protecting all of your iMessages, as well as all your photos, and your device backups) so this is a huge amount of data on/about you they can be compelled to turn over at any time without probable cause.
This means that you shouldn't use iCloud (even if you have nothing to hide). The fact that there is no probable cause required means that the state can demand this data as part of a fishing expedition to abuse/harass even the totally innocent.
This means that features like this, which lock you in to using iCloud in the long term, should be assiduously avoided.
Get your own domain name and get your own email hosting (not from Apple) and use that. You can setup a catchall to have unlimited unique email addresses. You can use multiple domains if you like. Step by step instructions on how to do this are on my website.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely some attorneys would be interested in a class-action.
According to https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/Subscri... you have to give up your rights to a class action and a jury trial to get Comcast service. Additionally, they spend a ton of money lobbying and otherwise unfairly impeding competition, so in many places in the US, they are the only option, so it's give up your civil rights to lawsuits, or stay offline (or pay a wireless carrier who does the…
Knowing how they're hijacking my bandwidth for their Xfinity hotspot service, the dark patterns to enable it, and the hiddenness of disabling it - it doesn't seem implausible.
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#104How do I report Hide My Email abuse? Someone used it to send a nasty email to my company. I couldn’t figure out how to report it. My guess is there is no way to do it and there won’t be until after some reporters make it the Apple scandal of the week when there’s no other news.
I'm not sure how one would do that? You cannot create Hide My Email addresses purely to send mail. Your company would have to first send mail to that address, and then the person behind it may reply
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#105I have a unique email address for every single service that I sign up for, similar to this, though selfhosted. I've been doing this for years and it works wonderfully. If someone misuses my email address, or gets annoying, I can simply turn off the address. Bam! It's the easiest Postfix config in the universe, essentially just: virtual_alias_domains = domain1.com domain2.com virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vir…
Nice! I do something similar, but using an automatic aliasing scheme so that I don't have to manually configure an email address for each service and other users can use this without me knowing their aliases. In my setup, aliases can contain wildcards, represented as percent signs. If an alias phil.%@domain1.com is set up, all your examples will be sent to the respective aliased address. I use Postfix Admin with a My…
Why not just use phil+craigslist@gmail.com or phil+kmart@gmail.com? same effect and lands in the same phil@gmail.com address
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#106How do I report Hide My Email abuse? Someone used it to send a nasty email to my company. I couldn’t figure out how to report it. My guess is there is no way to do it and there won’t be until after some reporters make it the Apple scandal of the week when there’s no other news.
Have you tried emailing abuse@icloud.com?
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#107Why not just use phil+craigslist@gmail.com or phil+kmart@gmail.com to achieve the same effect? ends up in the same phil@gmail.com inbox
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#108There are lots of ways to do this. Postfix is nice but a little heavy. The simplest and most functional way I've found is https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher since all it does is forward the emails. You can even use a throwaway gmail SMTP so it doesn't get send to spam Easy to set up on a rpi/cheap VPS, as long as you have a hostname. And while you're there, look for a short domain name so it's fast to type (on cr…
It's a built-in feature of Fastmail which is how I do it
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#109Quoted post unavailable.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425 > Apple doesn't read or process any of the content in the email messages that pass through Hide My Email, except to perform standard spam filtering that's required to maintain our status as a trusted email provider. All email messages are deleted from our relay servers after they're delivered to you, usually within seconds. Unless you can present an evidence, your post is most…
>your post is mostly a conspiracy theory.
Do you frequently bet that people are doing the right thing with no oversight? How often does that prove to be true?
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#110How do I report Hide My Email abuse? Someone used it to send a nasty email to my company. I couldn’t figure out how to report it. My guess is there is no way to do it and there won’t be until after some reporters make it the Apple scandal of the week when there’s no other news.
I'm not sure how one would do that? You cannot create Hide My Email addresses purely to send mail. Your company would have to first send mail to that address, and then the person behind it may reply
Of course you can: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/hide-your-email-address-mai...