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I love that site.

Thankfully I'm in the habit of using throwaway passwords for sites I consider throwaway.

I have noticed recently that I've been getting a lot of extortion spam, demanding bitcoin and saying that they know my passwords have compromising footage of me, having pwned all my devices. For proof they include a password I used on something like pandora, to the service-specific email address I set up for pandora. It's quite funny but I bet it's caught quite a few people with a guilty conscience out.



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