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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Ghost Messages of Yahoo's Recycled IDs
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The Ghost Messages of Yahoo's Recycled IDs
http://j.mp/176KZQf (Medium)
Eva Chan knows the value of a good username. She's had @EC on Twitter
"longer than Twitter has had vowels." So when Yahoo started offering
recycled user IDs, she put a few names on her wishlist. A little
later, Yahoo gave her one of those names. Then she started getting
emails about a stranger's cancer.
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