I find disposable e-mail addresses (e.g.
amazon.joe@spamgourmet.com)
quite good for untrusted recipients, while I give trusted friends my
permanent address (e.g.
joe@smith.org).
It works great generally, but the problem comes when a security-naive
friend decides to invite me to their stupid social network by
disclosing
joe@smith.org to a reckless and abusive social networking
service (e.g. Facebook).
Trying to coach every friend in advance is a non-starter. There needs
to be a tool for e-mail address distribution. Imagine a webpage where
a friend enters my unique username and a shared password, at which
point they are presented with:
You want to contact Joe's for the purpose of:
1) sending a normal e-mail
2) sending an encrypted e-mail
3) e-mail address for social networking
4) e-mail address for a money transaction
5) personal phone call
6) business phone call
7) Australian snail-mail address
8) UK snail-mail address
I know that's overly complex, so I reject my own idea. It's just to
illustrate the general need. I'm looking for ideas to simply
accomplish this without imposing too much work on friends, without
insulting their intelligence, and without extending too much trust all
at the same time.
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