Boost Your Internet Security with Disposable Email Addresses
May 12th 2009 13:28
In a recent study by Panda Labs, the US based Internet Security Software vendor, has revealed that spam now accounts for more than 90% of all email sent. This menace is growing by each passing day, not only in terms of shear volume, but also in terms of the severity of threat it poses to the Internet security and privacy of the recipient.
In this era of Web 2.0, every new site has a section, which is membership based, and thus requires a login and password coupled with your email address. You have to give them your email address, then only they will allow you to login and access their site. And once you have given your email address to them, you never know, what is actually happening with your email address behind your back.
Although most of the sites have a clearly defined Privacy and User Policies, which clearly outline how they will use your email address and other information provided, but tell me frankly, how often do you care to read those long paragraphs, written on complicated English, to fully understand what they will do with your address.
No, I am not getting overly skeptical, but it is a fact that giving your primary email address on such membership sites, which you do not trust fully, is always a potential security risk.
So, what is the alternative?
There is surely an alternative to this problem. And that is disposable email addresses.
There are many sites on the web today, which provide you a temporary email address, which can be used for getting the membership. The temporary email addresses you create on these sites, get automatically deleted after a predefined period, say half an hour or so.
Once you have verified your membership through these temporary email addresses, they get deleted but you have already achieved your objective.
Some of the sites, which provide such temporary email addresses are.
Mailinator
Melt Mail
MailExpire
Incognito Mail
Jetable
Spambox.us
Yopmail
Temporaryinbox
GuerrillaMail
Kas Mail
spamfree24
Mailboxable
LiteDrop
myTrashMail
MailCatch
MailEater
10 Minute Mail
TempEMail
Tempinbox
SpamMotel
So, next time you are signing up with the latest Web 2.0 site, don't give up your primary email address. Use one of these services and remain secured.
In this era of Web 2.0, every new site has a section, which is membership based, and thus requires a login and password coupled with your email address. You have to give them your email address, then only they will allow you to login and access their site. And once you have given your email address to them, you never know, what is actually happening with your email address behind your back.
Although most of the sites have a clearly defined Privacy and User Policies, which clearly outline how they will use your email address and other information provided, but tell me frankly, how often do you care to read those long paragraphs, written on complicated English, to fully understand what they will do with your address.
No, I am not getting overly skeptical, but it is a fact that giving your primary email address on such membership sites, which you do not trust fully, is always a potential security risk.
So, what is the alternative?
There is surely an alternative to this problem. And that is disposable email addresses.
There are many sites on the web today, which provide you a temporary email address, which can be used for getting the membership. The temporary email addresses you create on these sites, get automatically deleted after a predefined period, say half an hour or so.
Once you have verified your membership through these temporary email addresses, they get deleted but you have already achieved your objective.
Some of the sites, which provide such temporary email addresses are.
Mailinator
Melt Mail
MailExpire
Incognito Mail
Jetable
Spambox.us
Yopmail
Temporaryinbox
GuerrillaMail
Kas Mail
spamfree24
Mailboxable
LiteDrop
myTrashMail
MailCatch
MailEater
10 Minute Mail
TempEMail
Tempinbox
SpamMotel
So, next time you are signing up with the latest Web 2.0 site, don't give up your primary email address. Use one of these services and remain secured.
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