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Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

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Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

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Related stupidity: "Security Questions" that enable someone to take over your account just by collecting not-so-secret information that is often shared because the site insists you pick from their own set of questions which other sites have already used.

The best way to tackle "Security Questions" is to generate a passphrase, store in your password manager, and use that for the answer. In the unlikely event you ever need to recover your account with the Security Answer, it's much easier to read out a few words than a 16+ character random password.

I choose answers that only barely make sense. ie...

"Where is your favorite vacation spot?"

Narnia

"What was your first pet's name?"

Falkor

Even my closest friends who know me would never guess those, even if they knew I was giving bullshit answers, simply because I was never into "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" or "Never Ending Story".

(Note: These are not ACTUAL answers I've given, but you get the idea)

I save the bullshit answers into my password manager. But yeah, it's probably a better idea to just use an actual pass phrase.

Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

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Have done all that without suffering any sense of guilt ?

Yes. Also received invoices, past due notices and more. A couple of times I contacted the companies to let them know their notices did not reach the right person. No reply or acknowledgement. Both sides are bad. Not my problem. My problem is people using my email and creating trash in my inbox.

You are being an asshole to people who made a simple mistake, just because it caused you the mildest inconvenience.

Every time this sort of thing happens I make my best effort to inform all the parties involved, and block the senders as a last resort.

Be a better netizen.

Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

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It made the news a while back when someone was offering $10k USD to anyone who introduced them to someone he would marry. I would do the same, but I don't know how to make it feasible without sounding terrible. I do often let people know I'm open to matchmaking if they know any women my age.

It seems like these dating services could hold the bulk of the money in escrow pending the marriage. Maybe you pay a few hundred up front, but a few thousand in escrow, and when you get married, it gets paid out.

Maybe get the same problem as recruitment agents.

In theory an agent should want to match you to a good job. In practice it's a minefield.

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