Comment by tedunangst
13 years ago
If someone wanted to send you a top secret email (as opposed to a facebook message), they'll send it to your email address, except now your email address is listed as @facebook. The "attack" assumes someone doesn't already know your email, has something top secret that they don't want facebook to know, and are so retarded they don't look at the address they're sending to.
It's a MITM attack on one particular means of distributing your email address, but it's not an attack on your email at all.
Be fair; anyone who wants to send me a "top secret" email, but has to go to facebook to find my email address; I don't want them sending me their "secrets".
Right, but that's not a choice you get to make.