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Comment by eganist | Hacker News Reader

Basically a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463

Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to make sure I hadn't signed up for the service. Turns out I hadn't, but it was pitched on Product Hunt both in April 2015 and May 2016.

I'm hoping at least security folks made the mental connection that signing up meant compromising your personal emails. That's the single reason I didn't bother.

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> Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to make sure I hadn't signed up for the service.

Wouldn't you remember granting a third party full access to your email inbox? That doesn't seem like a trivial decision to make.

I trust my brain but verify my memories from time to time. :)

Past you isn't future you. And checking is near free.

For someone who grew up before webmail existed, and where mail apps were a local thing, it's really easy to forget that granting a third-party app access to your e-mail often grants that access to a third-party company these days.

It wasn't that long ago that the worst thing that would happen with a third-party mail client was that it would suck and you'd have to stop using it.

> signing up meant compromising your personal emails

Assuming someone only signed up with their personal address. Curious how many .gov email addresses are in their database...

It only works with major emails services like Gmail, Yahoo, etc, I believe.

Plenty of agencies on services like Google Apps for Government.

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