Email Security: Risks in Your Email’s Name You Never thought of
-How Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims can use email more safely.
Don’t reveal information in your email, that puts you in danger
→Email O.P.S.E.C. Security Part 2: Make sure your Email Display name and Signature don’t reveal information about you, and more.
“There is no sense in using the same email address for both your Facebook or Twitter account and your bank account.”
On the same note there’s no reason to include your full name, stalking victim or not.
security.stackexchange.com
How to set up your phone more securely:
-You may have just bought a new phone, so, check out this article too.
— Or this one, on how to create different identities online, and prevent data brokers and people finder sites from accessing your information:
Overlooked Email Risks
Dangers of Typical Emails
John.Doe@gmail.com
John.Doe@Hushmail.com (but a secure email service)
Problem: first and last name. Especially if yours is unique, where younlive, work, shop, social media, and more, can be discovered.
UniqueFirstName@gmail.com
Problem:
if you have a real unique first name, again, all the above will likely be found from it.
John.Doe.AtlantaChargers@aol.com
JohnInAtlanta@Hushmail.com
(Secure Email, not name though)
Doe.Atlanta@aol.com
Problem:
Reveals where you live!
You’re probably living in Atlanta, and, you frequent the chargers games, a local baseball team, which helps your abuser find where you might go.
Also, you’ve always had unique interests, so when they (your abuser), does creative searches looking for you online, your user name pops up on social media (twitter comment), or a data brokers, or a comment forum/club board..
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Plus, Aol: doesn’t have the best security, Gmail has alot more features to keep you Safe signing into your accounts, hushmail is end to end encrypted.
John.D.
Better
JD.LLC@gmail.com
D.LLC@hushmail.com
J.Bananas@hushmail.com
Pros:
it doesn’t give away your name, but only uses the 1st two initials for your name.
LLC, makes it look like a business email, without giving away the name of the business (maybe you have one, or, that’s part of your new story, that fades you away from your past).
Example
-If the abuser comes to your new town, and it’s smaller, and they are asking around about you, and you never owned a business like this before, it hides you.
Also, lots of people have initials of their name in their email, you will too, which blends in, makes sense, yet so many people will have those initials.
(Play it even safer, and have only one initial if your still worried)
J.Bananas@hushmail.com
You can also have your initial, and an interest (that’s not an interest of yours), for your personal/professional email too.
This also can be part of your new story, adding layers that makes it harder for pwople to find you, if they show up in your medium sized town.
Related article’s that may help you:
Creating Layers for Saftey
