Article 3MAJP You can unscramble the hashes of humanity's 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069

You can unscramble the hashes of humanity's 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069

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Cory Doctorow
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Marketing companies frequently "anonymize" their dossiers on internet users using hashes of their email addresses -- rather than the email addresses themselves -- as identifiers in databases that are stored indefinitely, traded, sold, and leaked. (more")

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