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submitted 23 hours ago by tod@hci.social to c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

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Thanks for obscuring my email address, TikTok.

What criminal mind could possibly figure out what the missing character is?! #cybersecurity

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[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Doxing yourself in this post has a wonderful irony

[–] tod@hci.social 1 points 27 minutes ago

@essell@lemmy.world Honestly, if a hacker couldn’t take an educated guess like this, they’re not much of a hacker are they? 😂

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago

Well that’s your own damn fault for using a vanity domain like that.

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ha, gotcha Ted

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

But there are 4 asterisks. So, Tedd

[–] tod@hci.social 3 points 22 hours ago

@burgermeister@lemm.ee Damnit.

[–] maxalmonte14@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Missing character? Trick question, there's three asterisks so there's obviously three missing characters.

[–] tod@hci.social 6 points 22 hours ago

@maxalmonte14@lemmy.world True, my actual given name is Toood

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is how I feel when I use Fastmail masked aliases where they’re something like

And sites like this “protect” my data by making it

site***e@adjective.noun1234.fastmail.com

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 1 hour ago

I've got a catch-all as well, so sometimes the only thing that's masked is the part I don't remember if site name could be ambiguous.