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The big problem with that is that you'd have to use the same really_long_random_string to register for every gravatar-enabled site you want to register for.
by ChadB 17y ago
The big problem with that is that you'd have to use the same
really_long_random_string
to register for every gravatar-enabled site you want to register for.
The only benefit I can see of this is that you could easily blacklist emails destined for that address.
- pyre 17y agoDoesn't have to be a really long and random string. Just has to be something that can't be easily deduced from your name and/or username. This might not defeat rainbow tables, but I think there are probably easier ways to harvest email addresses than to generate rainbow tables and troll for gravatar URLs.