Apple moves Hide My Email aliases to @private.icloud.com, making them easier to block
By
Arseniy Shestakov
All dough, no crust. Filling but forgettable.
Summary
Apple is changing the domain for Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases from various domains to @private.icloud.com. This change makes it trivial for services to identify and block all iCloud email aliases, undermining the privacy and plausible deniability that previously made banning these aliases difficult. The move is a significant blow to iCloud privacy features.
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· 4 pulledThis is certainly a big hit for iCloud privacy, since some plausible deniability together with Apple's backing made banning iCloud aliases costly.
Now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the @private.icloud.com subdomain.
This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail.
But now a lot of services will just refuse to accept these emails
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