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Use Unique Per-Site Emails To Catch Leaks

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Using a unique, hard-to-guess email address per site makes data leaks visible: any spam on that alias pinpoints the leaking site. Paweł Pokrywka's 12-year experiment over ~800 sites found 15 leakers (≈1 in 50), including LinkedIn, an Indian DNS provider and an SSL-certificate vendor.

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takeaway Use Unique Per-Site Emails To Catch Leaks
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Actionable recommendation derived from the talk's email-alias experiment.

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