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Good! Was there ever a compelling reason why they went for this switch initially?
by prism56 23d ago
Good! Was there ever a compelling reason why they went for this switch initially?
- floam 23d agoYes, to fully fix a certain class of bug on their infra.
- culi 23d agoDo you know any more about it or have a link where I can read more?
- gruez 23d agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935 If you dig more you could find the bug, but AFAIK it was that if you sent a large attachment, the bounce email would contain your real address.
- floam 23d agoI’ll try to add more later, but it is believed that multiple times, a bug in some random API has allowed for the “hidden” Apple account to be revealed because they resolve hide my emails to the original internally. Using a separate namespace would be the universal fix. A mitigation for the cause of https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/ https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-re...
- nvme0n1p1 23d agoThis doesn't follow. The bounce message used to (effectively) say, > abc@icloud.com forwards to real@gmail.com If they switched the new domain and did nothing else, it would say: > abc@privaterelay.appleid.com forwards to real@gmail.com That's no better. Fixing that privacy leak is unrelated to whatever the destination domain is.