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I'm not willing to answer the challenge, but I definitely believe it could be done. If someone was willing to purchase a large list of harvested e-mail addresses and sha1sum them all, it is very likely a commonly used address would show up in it. Now, if the address you used above is actually some single-purpose address similar to what I use for all my online accounts, that would not work, but I believe that very few people use dynamic partial addresses in that way. Not even the simple ones that gmail provides.


If by "dynamic partial addresses" you mean "plus addressing" then, yes, it does use that.




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