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Thanks for obscuring my email address, TikTok.

What criminal mind could possibly figure out what the missing character is?! #cybersecurity

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[–] Evotech 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nice try Toood

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Well that’s your own damn fault for using a vanity domain like that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Skanky 1 points 4 days ago

But there are 4 asterisks. So, Tedd

[–] essell 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Doxing yourself in this post has a wonderful irony

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] Honestly, if a hacker couldn’t take an educated guess like this, they’re not much of a hacker are they? 😂

[–] maxalmonte14 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Missing character? Trick question, there's three asterisks so there's obviously three missing characters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] True, my actual given name is Toood

[–] subtext 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is how I feel when I use Fastmail masked aliases where they’re something like

[email protected]

And sites like this “protect” my data by making it

site***[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I've got a catch-all as well, so sometimes the only thing that's masked is the part I don't remember if site name could be ambiguous.