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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 890111" data-attributes="member: 39702">1. YesPersonal e-mail address used for professional purposes and important stuff contains my real name.2. NoI never put real DOB to any account. But I do have particular date I set to all my accounts.3. NoEven though my ISP offers creation of multiple e-mail addresses, I will never use that service from them. It&#039;s not because it reveals country I live in, but because e-mail will be valid as long as I&#039;m their user. The moment I switch to an other ISP, I lose access to it.
Funny thing: our national ISP&#039;s e-mail addresses not only reveal country you&#039;re in, but the city too.4. MaybeMy Gmail account was leaked in Dropbox breach back in 2012. Immediately stopped being their user (it took them too long to acknowledge leak and to do something), but my e-mail account was secure at all times. I did receive some spam, not a lot (maybe few Nigerian princes and lottery mails), but I stopped receiving spam years ago. And I cannot say if that was the product of Dropbox leak, or some other service I&#039;ve registered to. Otherwise, tried looking for the e-mail address on the internet, no results anywhere. I think my privacy was never actually compromised.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 890111, member: 39702"] 1. Yes [INDENT]Personal e-mail address used for professional purposes and important stuff contains my real name.[/INDENT] 2. No [INDENT]I never put real DOB to any account. But I do have particular date I set to all my accounts.[/INDENT] 3. No [INDENT]Even though my ISP offers creation of multiple e-mail addresses, I will never use that service from them. It's not because it reveals country I live in, but because e-mail will be valid as long as I'm their user. The moment I switch to an other ISP, I lose access to it.[/INDENT] [INDENT]Funny thing: our national ISP's e-mail addresses not only reveal country you're in, but the city too.[/INDENT] 4. Maybe [INDENT]My Gmail account was leaked in Dropbox breach back in 2012. Immediately stopped being their user (it took them too long to acknowledge leak and to do something), but my e-mail account was secure at all times. I did receive some spam, not a lot (maybe few Nigerian princes and lottery mails), but I stopped receiving spam years ago. And I cannot say if that was the product of Dropbox leak, or some other service I've registered to. Otherwise, tried looking for the e-mail address on the internet, no results anywhere. I think my privacy was never actually compromised.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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