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A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I send all my test emails to test@tickle.com. I've no idea if anybody owns that, but if they do I hope they enjoy all the bizarre invoices I've sent there over the years...

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago

Why would you send a test email to an account you or someone you know doesn't control?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

My cousin set his parents email address as the test email in a pre-production database. Eventually the pre-production database became a production database and they ended up getting a lot of boxes for things that they haven't ordered or paid for. I think they ended up receiving one of everything that the company actually sells in every possible variation.