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   Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:41:05 JST Jonathan Kamens

   Today I started going through all of the accounts in my password manager with my email address as username and switch each of them to a dedicated https://addy.io/ address, to increase my security, protect my privacy, and enable me to know when a site sells my email address or they have a data breach.
   For some sites the change was smooth. For others, not. This thread chronicles the "interesting" results.
   #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #ChangeOfAddress
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     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:41:03 JST Jonathan Kamens

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     On https://jabra.com/ there's no way I can find to change the email address associated with my account. I submitted a support ticket asking how to do it. We'll see what they say.
     #ChangeOfAddress
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     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:41:04 JST Jonathan Kamens

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     https://aarp.org/ said they were sending email to confirm the change. I clicked the link in the email, and it loaded the web site but didn't display any sort of message confirming the change. I viewed my profile and it said the new address was still unconfirmed. I tried clicking the link in the email again, and it said it wasn't valid and I should call customer service during business hours. Nevertheless after logging out I was able to log back in using the new address.
     #ChangeOfAddress
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     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:41:19 JST Jonathan Kamens

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     There's no way to change the email address associated with my account on https://lenovo.com/, and no instructions I could find for how to do it. I had to Google "how to do I change my lenovo id email address," which brought me to https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht508913-lenovo-id-how-do-i-change-the-primary-email-account-on-my-lenovo-id; the instructions there worked.
     #ChangeOfAddress
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     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:41:21 JST Jonathan Kamens

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     An interstitial page popped up upon login to https://microcenter.com/, demanding that I provide my mobile phone number. Skipping this step was not an option. I don't give my phone number to sites that demand it, so I contacted their customer service via chat and asked them to delete my account. They asked for the email address associated with the account and then deleted the account without first sending me email to confirm that I'm the legitimate owner of the address. #smdh
     #ChangeOfAddress
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