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The AI searched five years of email and listed my forgotten accounts

A tech writer had the AI search five years of his email for signup and password reset messages. The AI built a spreadsheet of the accounts it found, with breach notes and a deletion link for each service, and tagged at least 50 accounts.

How it works

  1. The AI searches five years of email for welcome, verify, and password reset messages
  2. Builds a spreadsheet with one row per service, with earliest and latest email dates
  3. Checks each service against a public breach list and adds its account deletion link

Why it’s worth knowing

Five years of old signup emails turned into a cleanup list with deletion links and breach flags, without signing in anywhere.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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