"but they take all the risk, they deserve the reward"

what risk? the only thing they risk is becoming one of us if they fail hard enough and have to go get a regular job

if you log into mainstream SM with your account then all previous and future things you do on that system will be linked to you on their end in some way.

i prefer pairdrop specifically because there's no install.

however, looks like local send (after install) might work offline as long as they local network is up.

oh, yeah. it's not perfect but it sure does remove so much crap i don't intend to read.

i recently missed an event invite because of it... luckily i was just a late responder and have not actually missed the event itself

i definitely have to "browse" the unimportant emails regularly

I'm using Google. I've done that too. protecting inboxes is step one for sure, but i also want to know the extent of this. it's not enough for me to just block the emails and leave it at that.

if it keeps coming and i fail to block them all i want to have some info on the intent of this so I can properly educate others i work with to defend ourselves

i assume something just got popular with script kiddies, but i want to know what it is and what systems it effects so i can know if I'm protected or not.

gonna keep looking at least as long as i keep seeing this happening

I've done that, but it's spreading.

other than specific filters and generic spam filter I have the "if content contains 'unsubscribe' then mark as read and never mark important"

that's not going to stop the hacked system from spamming myself and every other customer they have. I would highly doubt if they even take the time to look at any replies let alone actually read them and unsubscribe anyone who asked for it... after the entire hack was over because I called one company and they were already aware of the hack and were trying to stop it.

freedom of their speech, not ours

also

what kind of an idiot wrote this.... oh... i did

please don't use a temp email (or non existent) for anything you might care about. also, make sure you never typo your email address.

example:

• someone uses a typo or fake email to create an account with some service.
• that service is later hacked and all emails found out
• hacker creates the email for real
• hacker just got your account