Apple finally declares war on something other than Android

[Wireless News]

A new Apple patent describes the methods the company has come up with in an effort to fight the increased number of spam messages that flood email accounts, AppleInsider reveals. According to the patent, called “Disposable email address generation and mapping to a regular email account” the system would be able to generate disposable email addresses that would be tied to a permanent email address belonging to the user. “Email has become ubiquitous, and email addresses are requested often as postal addresses. When consumers use shopping websites to order goods or services, those websites typically request the consumer’s email address to allow communication with the user about the order. Even paper forms filled out with pen and ink often request

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