• mitigating friends giving your address to social networks

    From Doc O'Leary@21:1/5 to Anonymous on Thu Oct 22 03:12:27 2015
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> wrote:

    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).

    If you can’t trust your trusted friends, you shouldn’t give them the
    direct address at all. There’s no reason not to use a disposable address with them as well, with the only real “trick” being that you need to come up with a system that allows you kill it when it gets into someone else’s hands but still allows you to generate a new address for your friend
    without a lot of fuss.

    The easiest approach is to number them (e.g. bob1joe@, bob2joe@, etc.),
    but maybe you could make a game of allowing them pick their own “custom” address (e.g., big.guns.bobby+joe@, drinking.bud.bob+joe@, etc.). I’ve
    found that once they get the idea that you use special addresses for them,
    it usually clicks that you do the same on social networks and other sites.

    --
    "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
    River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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  • From Anonymous@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 20 19:41:02 2015
    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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