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Comment on It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?

There’s really nothing to be done about the compromised email address, but I would really recommend using a service that creates unique email addresses per service that you sign up for to mitigate the blast radius when one service gets pwned. It takes a long while, but thankfully privacy laws are stronger now and it’s easier to force a company to either delete your information or change the email they have for you.

Some potential services to consider include:

addy.io

proton.me/pass/aliases

www.fastmail.com/features/masked-email/

support.apple.com/guide/icloud/…/icloud

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thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Thanks! I’ll definitely look into that, though the only issue I can imagine is keeping track of which email that goes to which service (I’m one of those kinds of people that uses “Forgot my password” effectively as a password manager, don’t hate me for it, I have reasons).

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- jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is also a good reason to use an actual password manager
  
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  - thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Since you chose to point it out: My reason is that I regularly need to be able to log into things on a non-personal machine, sometimes without access to my phone. So no, a password manager for all my accounts is out of the picture. I either write stuff down, remember it, or - sometimes - forget it and need to reset my password.
    
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    whitecold@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Not having access to your phone and having to log in on other computers doesn’t rule out using password managers at all. You can use bitwarden’s web vault (or self-host vaultwarden). As long as you can log in to bitwarden web vault, you can access your passwords anytime, anywhere.
    
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- nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  the only issue I can imagine is keeping track of which email that goes to which service Using a password locker will take care of that.
  
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- subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They all have a system for keeping track of that, I know iCloud automatically assigns a URL to each based on where you created it, or Fastmail (which I use) has a comment field and automatically tags each email as it comes to your inbox.
  
  It takes more than zero effort to create it, so it’s too much effort for my wife, but I absolutely love it.
  
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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
yahoo mail also offers disposable email addresses

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