Make it harder for hackers to harm you by protecting your email address -- set up a secondary account and use that for account sign-ups

This post is about how you can make it more difficult for bad actors to discover your primary email account, which makes it harder for them to hack you, harass you, and harm you.

If a bad actor can’t find you: they can’t hack you, harass you, or harm you!

Protect your primary email account

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I define a primary email as an email you use for most of your email activity (writing friends/family/work) and/or that is linked to sensitive files (i.e. Google Photos/Drive or iCloud). Th…