You may have heard of throwaway or disposable email addresses and wondered why anyone would need one. But you might be surprised by how having one can come in handy. Although they may sound like ...

When you want to download something, for example an application from a Web site, nine times out of 10 you are asked for your e-mail address. While a few sites perform no e-mail address verification ...

The maintainers of a "disposable email service" blocklist have decided to add Firefox Relay to the list, leaving many users of the service upset. Firefox Relay is a privacy-centric email service that ...

Time spent deleting and wrangling junk mail can cut into your productivity and even bottom line. That's where a disposable email address comes in handy. When you download trial software or sign up for ...

Email security people worried about disposable domains, those that facilitate fraud, have a new threat to ponder: hyper-disposable email domains. Hyper-disposable domains can evade detection and ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Well, dear readers, we have reached the final issue of It’s Geek To Me for 2022. Just for the record, this is issue #805 ...

In the last newsletter I discussed a number of services that provide disposable e-mail addresses that allow users to provide a working e-mail address for Web sites and services that require them for ...