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When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains (inti.io)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What you’d buy is “domain.com” and can then redirect any emails of the form “@domain.com” or even things like “@.domain.com”.

In fact, any email ending in “.domain.com” or “@domain.com”. And you could set up a wildcard to catch all emails without having to setup that specific email first.