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		oefrha on May 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives? Using WKD is also a good way to solicit useless “security”-related emails from people running questionable automated scanners.

Boulth on May 8, 2020 | [–]

I think you confused this with security.txt standard. WKD is not enumerable (unless explicitly configured like that) so the issue doesn't exist.

JBiserkov on May 8, 2020 | [–]

That's why we can't have nice things :-(

As soon as something is well-known, it will be abused by spammers/scammers.

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