On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Nathan Larson <nathanlarson3141(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
What if all of the email addresses that a user has
ever used were to be
stored permanently? Then in the event of an account hijacking, he could say
to WMF, "As your data will confirm, the original email address for user Foo
was foo(a)example.com, and I am emailing you from that account, so either my
email account got compromised, or I am the person who first set an email
address for user Foo." The email services have their own procedures for
sorting out situations in which people claim their email accounts were
hijacked.
This is definitely something to consider, but I feel like it would involve
changing our privacy policy. Or at the very least it would cause some
controversy related to that.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science