Email Aliasing Is A Great Privacy Tool
Security Boulevard, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Using the same email address everywhere isn't helping you be more private. But short of creating a multiple new mailboxes and subsequently managing them - what can you do?
Think about it. many users likely use the same email everywhere, for everything like:
- bank accounts
- insurance accounts
- social media
- newsletters
- ecommerce accounts/purchases
- forum registrations
- resumes
- personal communications
. and everything in between.
This same email address may even be involved in data breaches and data leaks. Data breaches generally occur when a service/provider suffers a cyberattack and user/employee/personal information is stolen or otherwise compromised; data leaks are similar, but don't necessarily result from a cyberattack - an organization could inadvertently directly expose sensitive/personal data from their systems, often available publicly.