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Old 02-03-2019, 01:16 PM  
AdultKing
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Originally Posted by ladida View Post
Haha, naive people put their email here and get subject to spam It's just a mail collection service. They have no more knowledge of if your mail got hacked then you do.
That's incorrect. Troy Hunt runs Have I Been Pwned? and as a well known security researcher and Microsoft fellow I am sure he's not harvesting email addresses.

It's ill informed crap like you just wrote that makes the Internet a more dangerous place, because when security specialists develop tools to protect you all you can do is try to tear them down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Been_Pwned%3F
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