defeat.me

[pedruid]

I am led to believe that this can discover whether your email address has been duplicated. Anyone care to enlighten me?

 

[saor]

That url is a parked domain with nothing on it.
What are you talking about?

 

[pedruid]

That url is a parked domain with nothing on it.
What are you talking about?

Sorry but I was reading an article in the Drs waiting room. It caught my eye when the writer discussed having found duplicate of his gmail address. Had to leave it before completion.

 

[Thor]

wat

 

[ginggs]

Sorry but I was reading an article in the Drs waiting room. It caught my eye when the writer discussed having found duplicate of his gmail address. Had to leave it before completion.

I hope you get well soon.

 

[NeonNinja]

I hope you get well soon.

Or what's the prognosis.

 

[scienide]

came here with my popcorn, but looks like Eskom switched the power off early

 

[Recallza]

lol thread

 

[Dairyfarmer]

Or what's the prognosis.

Pygalgia most likely.

 

[The_Librarian]

think a bit on this

consider the following :

[email protected]
[email protected] is the same. Yes!
BUT
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

(and also any other derivative [meaning the dot is in a different place before the @gmail.com)

and [email protected] is all the same.

Don't believe me? Try it out yourself.

BUT

[email protected] also goes to [email protected]

So how the heck do you duplicate a gmail address?

Simply by substituting I (capital i) with l or 1 (or some other character which looks almost identical, and which won't be picked up with a casual glance)... or by brute-forcing the account you want and take it over, and lock its original owner out.