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   Bob Young :verified: (fifonetworks@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:47:52 JST Bob Young :verified:

   On another forum I'm "talking" to a person who uses a Gmail account, and on some online job applications, it rejects his email and says, "Please enter a valid email address." At first I thought he might have an email address with some of the characters that are technically allowed in the RFC, but that not all systems support. But when I found out he uses a Gmail address, I wondered: do any online job application systems restrict Gmail addresses as a spam prevention tactic?

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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:47:51 JST OCTADE

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     • Jane
     @fifonetworks@infosec.exchange
     
     If I were a tech or software dev hiring manager, I would automatically reject all applications coming from free email services like gmail, protonmail, tutanota, outlook, etc. A nerd or hacker should already have their own domain name and email server, or institutional email account.
     
     Also, using a free email service for any personal business is a HUGE data security risk, not just for the applicant, but for the company responding to the applicant. State agencies can snarf such communications to glean inside business information, then sell that information to your competitors, which is probably happening somewhere right now as I write this.
     
     #InfoSec #Email #FreeEmail #Jobs #Gmail
     
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     Jane (janeadams@datavis.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:47:52 JST Jane

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     @fifonetworks is the first part of the string just alphanumeric? Google allows characters like "+" and "." that route to the same place (e.g. your.name@gmail and yourname+randomletters@gmail are the exact same as yourname@gmail) but some sanitization checks don't allow those