Good to know. I did specify that I never used it, so my understanding could be flawed.
> To "email yourself" implies using the same service.
To you, but not necessarily to everyone. People do have multiple accounts (gmail, personal domain, work, even Facebook gives you an email address you can send things to), and it's really easy to conflate "email yourself" with "send an email to your account", or even to abstract "sending an email to yourself is secure" to "email is secure".
My point was simply that if you make an argument about something as important as security, it's vital that you spell out the limitations to your advice. "Email yourself" is ambiguous enough that it needs a proper disclaimer.
Admittedly, the audience for Coding Horror is mostly people who know this stuff already, but it's certainly not limited to those people exclusively. I started reading his blog midway through college, and it's amazing to me, looking back now, just how naive I was about a lot of things back then.
Good to know. I did specify that I never used it, so my understanding could be flawed.
> To "email yourself" implies using the same service.
To you, but not necessarily to everyone. People do have multiple accounts (gmail, personal domain, work, even Facebook gives you an email address you can send things to), and it's really easy to conflate "email yourself" with "send an email to your account", or even to abstract "sending an email to yourself is secure" to "email is secure".
My point was simply that if you make an argument about something as important as security, it's vital that you spell out the limitations to your advice. "Email yourself" is ambiguous enough that it needs a proper disclaimer.
Admittedly, the audience for Coding Horror is mostly people who know this stuff already, but it's certainly not limited to those people exclusively. I started reading his blog midway through college, and it's amazing to me, looking back now, just how naive I was about a lot of things back then.