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Terwax
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Concerned about privacy...

Post by Terwax »

For donation, i have to reveal my email address (in the link).

Anyway to disable that? I don't want people to see my personal email and try to hack it.

If they happen to hack it, they'll reset my password for NFO then put password recovery dvd for one of my VDS machine and taking down my website as well as deleting data along with shutting down all of my game servers as well as deleting (i know i can bring them back up from the backup).

So, anyway to hide my identity?
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There isn't currently away a way to accept donations except by email, but on the slate for the future is a system that can do it by user ID number here instead.

I strongly recommend using a trustworthy email host and a difficult-to-guess password for your email account.
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Post by kraze »

I also agree with John. Use a good email host and a strong password. It is usually pretty hard to hack someones email with just their email address. Also it never hurts to change your password every X amount of days.

Also what I do with my email client is I have several fail safes.

1. Gmail will text me a code to reset my password
2. I kept the account activation code on creation so I can provide it to them to prove my identity.
3. I have a secondary email verified on that account where they can also send me passwords or contact me if anything ever happens like that.

Like I said above if people could get easily hacked with just a persons email, emailing would not be popular.
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