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Virginia Routh

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Nov 4, 2021, 9:08:05 AM11/4/21
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Hi Smuggers. Another infuriating update from Apple. My iPad is now telling me to hide my email address so that I cannot automatically add it to a form . This is a new iCloud setting. How can I turn this off? In Settings I cannot see an option to do so. Virginia

Russell Brown

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Nov 4, 2021, 9:12:39 AM11/4/21
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My working hours may differ from yours.  Please be assured that I do not expect a reply outside of your normal working hours.

Hi Virginia.  It's optional, you can ignore it.  I don't think you can actually turn it off though?

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If I could also be so bold as to flag with you some Primary Care training we have designed mostly for HCA staff which is relevant to GP practice specifically? The NVQ training is not relevant to our industry and leaves too many gaps in knowledge and practical training. It has been included in the RCN educational seminar this year and we have been asked to write an article for a Nursing publication as nothing like this exists for HCA’s at the moment.

 

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 13:08, Virginia Routh <virgini...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Smuggers.  Another infuriating update from Apple.  My iPad is now telling me to hide my email address so that I cannot automatically add it to a form .  This is a new iCloud setting.  How can I turn this off?    In Settings I cannot see an option to do so.  Virginia

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Tony Crooks

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Nov 4, 2021, 11:02:07 AM11/4/21
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Settings>Mail>Privacy Protection and switch it to off.

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Virginia Routh

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Nov 4, 2021, 11:47:31 AM11/4/21
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Thanks, Tony.  That should sort it.  How careful should one be?  Do you have yours turned on?  I’ve left on ‘hide it address’.    Virginia

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Tony Crooks

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Nov 4, 2021, 1:11:07 PM11/4/21
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Hi. Virginia,

The purpose of the Hide my Email feature is to stop others from gleaning information about you. This doesn’t apply to those you regularly exchange emails with. Say you order a product online and they ask for an email address? Using the Hide feature, in which you choose a random email address ensures that they cannot sell on your regular email address, etc., as Apple forwards anything sent to the random address to your normal email address. A sort of cloaking if you will.

In these days where people are buying much more online, this is just one way of keeping your personal details from being spread around the inter web!

Tony

Virginia Routh

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Nov 4, 2021, 1:21:46 PM11/4/21
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Helpful. Thanks, Tony. 


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nick_p...@mac.com

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Nov 5, 2021, 2:10:07 PM11/5/21
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Tony,
Reading your reply to Virginia you talk of ‘Hide my email’.
I’m on the latest version of iOS plus updates for phone and iPad but clicking on Mail>Privacy Protection I get an option to Protect Mail Activity and in the blurb it just says it hides the IP address but doesn’t mention anything about an email address. Does PMA  include the phone or iPad automatically choosing a random email address or that it an extra that one has to download or is that implied in hiding IP address?
Nick

Sam - MacAmbulance

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Nov 5, 2021, 2:58:48 PM11/5/21
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Hide My Email is only used when signing into a website or service using your AppleID as a login, Apple will create a random address @iCloud.com and forward that to your email, so if you choose to delete the account, that forward is deleted and cuts contact from the company/service. 

It’s not related to privacy protection within Mail, which is loading HTML assets within an email using an anonymous proxy. I’m not sure how useful that is as spammers don’t want your IP address, they want to see when a specific image embedded within an email is downloaded from their server, then they know your email address is active and can be spammed more.
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nick_p...@mac.com

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Nov 5, 2021, 4:40:15 PM11/5/21
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Fascinating and very helpful. Many thanks Sam.

The other day I was thinking, apart from myself, there are maybe a few other smuggers who would benefit from a Zoom type meeting (harking back to meetings at the pub near Brighton station) discussing exactly these sorts of issues. It might help us stay a little safer from scams.
Personally I’d be very happy to pay say for an hour’s Zoom full of tips on internet etc security.
I thought I would put it out there at least.
Nick

Stephen Watson

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Nov 5, 2021, 8:04:27 PM11/5/21
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Sounds like it could be fun. Why not FaceTime - we’ve all got it and it’s free …

Stephen

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On 5 Nov 2021, at 20:40, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Fascinating and very helpful. Many thanks Sam.

Jason P. Davies

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Nov 6, 2021, 11:57:16 AM11/6/21
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I’m no longer admin but when I was there was ridiculous politics about user groups and meetings. At the time whoever oversaw the U.K. user groups wanted to demand that there were regular meetings and that we charged something like 2 quid a month for membership and then negotiated special discounts blah blah. All of this required keeping membership lists, setting up bank accounts, keeping accounts (huge bureaucracy) so I said ‘well you can bring that in and enforce it but I will resign because I have a life’ and they backed down.

But they basically said if you start organising meetings we will revisit this question so I never did raise it.

No idea if the same madness still goes on but if it does, I suggest meetings remain informal;)

Thanks,

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On 6 Nov 2021 at 00:04:22 GMT, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Sounds like it could be fun. Why not FaceTime - we’ve all got it and it’s free …

Stephen

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> On 5 Nov 2021, at 20:40, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Fascinating and very helpful. Many thanks Sam.
>
> The other day I was thinking, apart from myself, there are maybe a few other smuggers who would benefit from a Zoom type meeting (harking back to meetings at the pub near Brighton station) discussing exactly these sorts of issues. It might help us stay a little safer from scams.
> Personally I’d be very happy to pay say for an hour’s Zoom full of tips on internet etc security.
> I thought I would put it out there at least.
> Nick
>
>> On 5 Nov 2021, at 18:58, Sam - MacAmbulance <in...@macambulance.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hide My Email is only used when signing into a website or service using your AppleID as a login, Apple will create a random address @iCloud.com and forward that to your email, so if you choose to delete the account, that forward is deleted and cuts contact from the company/service.
>>
>> It’s not related to privacy protection within Mail, which is loading HTML assets within an email using an anonymous proxy. I’m not sure how useful that is as spammers don’t want your IP address, they want to see when a specific image embedded within an email is downloaded from their server, then they know your email address is active and can be spammed more.
>> _
>> Regards
>> Sam Mullen
>>
>> +44 (0)7747778022
>> in...@macambulance.com
>> www.macambulance.com
>>
>>
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nick_p...@mac.com

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Nov 6, 2021, 2:15:16 PM11/6/21
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Point taken Jason.
I think my starting point was not necessarily to restart formal Smug meetings online or otherwise as they used to be but to explore informally whether the technology that has developed and supports WFHome allows a sharing of internet security tips; as I mentioned I would be willing to pay/donate (I can’t remember if money changed hands 20 or so years ago) to become more clued up.
Maybe there are videos etc on You Tube (will search) but I certainly need to get more of a grip on that aspect of current living than I currently have.
Nick
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