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Risks of exposing professional email accounts?
The security problem would be that you become a database of contact info. You have described few controls and no need for users to provide their personal details and contact info.
Marketers would ...
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Risks of exposing professional email accounts?
You don't have a product
All you have is a database of email addresses. That's an asset, not a product. A product needs to do something with those email addresses.
Who would want to get access to ...
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Risks of exposing professional email accounts?
Basically, since the sign-up to your service on ones free will, it is rather a privacy related topic (assuming it's security wise at the state of the art and well maintained).
A leaked email alone is ...
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Circular dependencies in email recovery
There are two primary purposes for a 'recovery email' address.
To reset a forgotten password or regain access to an account
To provide an out of band method of validation of sucpicious activity
In ...
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Risks of exposing professional email accounts?
There is a reason most reputable sites and services provide mailing and/or messaging services for members to communicate. It is to mask the private data of the members and protect privacy and ...
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