On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Nathan Larson <[email protected]>wrote:

> What if all of the email addresses that a user has ever used were to be
> stored permanently? Then in the event of an account hijacking, he could say
> to WMF, "As your data will confirm, the original email address for user Foo
> was [email protected], and I am emailing you from that account, so either my
> email account got compromised, or I am the person who first set an email
> address for user Foo." The email services have their own procedures for
> sorting out situations in which people claim their email accounts were
> hijacked.
>

This is definitely something to consider, but I feel like it would involve
changing our privacy policy. Or at the very least it would cause some
controversy related to that.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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