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Post by dahart »

eru wrote: post #432
dahart wrote: post #420

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Sure. How’s that relevant?

That someone might use IMAP is no worse than someone using a photocopier.

Sure it is, and your own comment above about gmail to gmail being fairly secure demonstrated that. Using a photocopier is intentional, and everyone knows what a photocopier is. Most people don’t know what IMAP is, and an email sender does not know if the recipient uses IMAP.

And this is still irrelevant to sending email to the wrong recipient, so I don’t know why you’re stuck on infra security.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by ethbr1 »

leipert wrote: post #363
ethbr1 wrote: post #346

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Same, albeit it seems like multiple people. Or at least someone who moves states. It's bizarre though... who puts down an email address they don't own on a job application?!

I recently wanted to introduce someone to our internal recruiters to a person with a long, uniqueish name. The recruiter was like: they did respond with „I’m not interested“. But the person was like: I’ve never got a mail. Turned out the whatever tool our recruiter used spit out „first.lastname@gmail.com“ even though the person in question doesn’t own that email.

Interesting!

I've gotten a wide enough variety of stuff (mortgage paperwork, homeowners insurance, game service accounts) that some of it has to be organically entered, but that is a good note. Crazy that any system would be set up that way, but HR tech is a clusterfuck.

I am lastname.firstname@gmail.com, but I wouldn't be surprised if something similar is happening in some instances.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by DANmode »

deanishe wrote: post #427
torben-friis wrote: post #168

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My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern. I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier u…

We had a board member who frequently emailed confidential documents to a security guard with the same name as another director. It was his iPad's fault, apparently.

How did that play out?

It basically defines the organization.

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Post by tracker1 »

gambiting wrote: post #389
antidamage wrote: post #387

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My deadname was not only owned by some other people in my industry, it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating. Glad to see that after five years post abandoning it my contribution to the name is basically gone from the internet now.

>>it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating How so? Other than a funny coincidence, how would that ever come up anywhere in anything unless you both lived in a tiny community where everyone knows each other. I just don't understand how someone born on the same day as you having the same name was "irritating".

Try it sometime... My name is somewhat common, but not even close to "John Smith" common... but even at about 1:20,000 or so I've seen a few conflicts just from my name. Another me was born the same day in the state I reside in... I've had a few things on my credit history get tangled up over it.

I've also met two others with the same name, purely coincidentally, not related. I worked on an access/security software team at a major bank (about 350k employees internationally at the time), I found 3 bugs just by being me. Since even SSN/Tax-Id varied, there were several ways to match identity and I had conflicts in a couple of them with other employees. Last Name + last-4 of tax/ssn/national-id (for whatever country the employee was in) was one of them. I don't recall the other two right now, been about 15 years.

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Post by tracker1 »

donohoe wrote: post #208
zukzuk wrote: post #166

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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…

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.

Absolutely... I've had the same issue (nickname is gmail name), and constantly amazed how many people don't "get" that you can't just claim any gmail address you like and start using it on websites anyway.

I've gotten student financial aid docs, various product mailing lists, order receipts etc... it's amazing how many places take an email address and just start spamming without any validation at all.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by tracker1 »

abustamam wrote: post #269
donohoe wrote: post #208

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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.

My dad's first name is my last name so my last name @gmail is taken by him :) But I have a relatively rare first name and even rarer last name due to my dad having a very rare first name, so I easily snagged first.last. Pretty sure to this day I've never even seen anyone with my dad's first name (or my last name). Meanwhile, my coworkers name is literally Adam Smith and his usernames tend to be adamsmith2 or 3 or 4.…

I've worked in a few groups over the years with several other "Michael"... It's not fun when you get 4 in a group (dev/mgt teams) of like 15.

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Post by sceptic123 »

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 uncommon first name (for my age group) but a very common surname. The first person I met with the same first name as me was when I was about 13 — they also had the same surname.

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Post by mrgaro »

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 used to have a very common name (before getting married and took my wife's last name). Imagine that I have firstname.lastname@gmail and somebody was genius to take firstname.lastnam@gmail.

I felt this was so stupid, that i quickly lost any willingness to try to relay the emails to their original owner, as the other person had zero interest to change their address to be harder to mistype.

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