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   Brad (bk1e@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 12:57:00 JST Brad

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   • timthelion

   @thomasfuchs @timthelion That is interesting considering the recent controversy over the .NET “Moq” library sending hashes of developers’ email addresses to the cloud. It’s no longer private when someone has a database to do hash -> email lookups.

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     timthelion (timthelion@emacs.ch)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 11:10:42 JST timthelion

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I could never get over the creepiness of websites sharing my email with them and them being able to connect my identity with the gravitar powerd forums I visited and used.

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     timthelion (timthelion@emacs.ch)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 12:57:00 JST timthelion

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @bk1e @thomasfuchs It gets worse when according to wikipedia the hashes are right in the urls and therefore PUBLICLY available. And it's md5, which is far from secure...