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Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Apple’s Hide My Email feature is a convenient privacy tool that uses disposable addresses to hide a user’s true email for the sake of online anonymity.
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Apple’s Hide My Email feature is a convenient privacy tool that uses disposable addresses to hide a user’s true email for the sake of online anonymity. Unfortunately, new research appears to show that a bug in the feature allows users’ real email addresses to be unmasked. The bug was reported by 404 Media , which says that it has tested and verified that the vulnerability exists.
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