An email service that doesn't recycle username?


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Hi,

 

do you know if there is some email service that don't recycle username like Outlook and Yahoo?

 

I ask this because I'm a little scared from a possible security risk.

 

For example, i'm using my Outlook address with iCloud and iTunes, I buy some app and some song here, but in general I use my account to register to a lot of website.

 

If in future for some motivation, the account will be closed because i stop to use, the username will be recycled from Microsoft and the new user with a simple "password recovery reset" can access for example to Amazon!

 

This is incredibile?

 

Not, because a lot of website require only a password reset sent via email... and if the username has been recycled... do you understand how is simple break the privacy with this recycle policy?

 

 

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They don't recycle usernames/email addresses as far as I am aware. I have an email address with Hotmail that I haven't used in 10+ years and I can't create another email address using that address/name.

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Outlook, Yahoo recycle your username after x amount of time (6-12 months).  http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2014/04/02/recycled-email-addresses-may-threaten-consumer-trust/

 

I do not believe Gmail does.  They state:  "You'll also be unable to reuse your Gmail username" when you go to delete/restore a Google account.

 

However, I do not understand why you'd let an important email account lapse (one where you purchased this and that, received important this and that, etc).

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I make an example that I hope that you can understand.

 

This is an example that is a little scary, but I think that is better to better understand:

 

- you are an Hotmail user by 10 years 

- with the hotmail address, you are registrated to some website, for Example AMAZON

- you buy a lot of ebook and mp3 on amazon, but for some motivation you forget that you have this account or you can't access this account for some strange motivation (dead, alien attack, tornado, zeus kill you etc...)

- after some time, the account is closed and a new user register and it's reassigned to them.

- after some time, the new user see that he receive email from amazon and newsletter from them and he try to recover the password 

- the new user, discover that exist an account that is associated to an old user, that in past have the same username 

- the new user, can access all the data of the old user, and download the book and the mp3 that the old user had bought on amazon some year ago

 

Now can you understand why recycle username is not so good?

 

Ok, if a people change username, he can update the website (like amazon, apple etc...). But if the people have some big problem, for example, health or some other big problem?

 

I don't think that is a good privacy practice recyle username

 

In practice we can register an email, that can be in past used from a dead person and from the email, find some info or account of the old user.!

 

I know, for someone you can tell me that i'm paranoid... but it's a privacy problem.

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I make an example that I hope that you can understand.

 

This is an example that is a little scary, but I think that is better to better understand:

 

- you are an Hotmail user by 10 years 

- with the hotmail address, you are registrated to some website, for Example AMAZON

- you buy a lot of ebook and mp3 on amazon, but for some motivation you forget that you have this account or you can't access this account for some strange motivation (dead, alien attack, tornado, zeus kill you etc...)

- after some time, the account is closed and a new user register and it's reassigned to them.

- after some time, the new user see that he receive email from amazon and newsletter from them and he try to recover the password 

- the new user, discover that exist an account that is associated to an old user, that in past have the same username 

- the new user, can access all the data of the old user, and download the book and the mp3 that the old user had bought on amazon some year ago

 

Now can you understand why recycle username is not so good?

 

Ok, if a people change username, he can update the website (like amazon, apple etc...). But if the people have some big problem, for example, health or some other big problem?

 

I don't think that is a good privacy practice recyle username

 

In practice we can register an email, that can be in past used from a dead person and from the email, find some info or account of the old user.!

 

I know, for someone you can tell me that i'm paranoid... but it's a privacy problem.

 

If you have that problem, contact the email provider and you and someone will work something out which you might be lucky to get the email address back for your purchase records/receipts/medical.

 

All you do is setup your email account on the email client such as outlook client, inbox, etc so the sync system can check email periodically so you wouldn't worry about email address recycling. That way, the provider to check and see when you last check your email account on their log.

 

 

I have been with Hotmail for over 10 years. I have no issues with them. Now I am with Outlook.

 

I have not been with Yahoo for while now and I checked and see if my account is still around... and it still is!

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They don't recycle usernames/email addresses as far as I am aware. I have an email address with Hotmail that I haven't used in 10+ years and I can't create another email address using that address/name.

 

Same here, I had an account 5+ years ago and I still can't access it or even use the username.

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Move this to conspiracy theories?

Seconded...

 

Though not entirely impossible.  Though in services like amazon you CAN change your email address so I don't see what the problem is?

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