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COMP410fFall 2024 semester class project
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Detect EMAIL_ADDRESS #4

Closed skybot00 closed 4 weeks ago

skybot00 commented 2 months ago

Description: An email address is a type of PII that can directly reveal personal details such as identity, contact information, or even location of the individual.

Detection Steps: An Email Address basically follows the standard format of having a username (which could include letters, numbers, and special characters). Then the @ symbol which separates the username and domain. Lastly would be the domain, which also contains letters, numbers and special characters followed by .com, .org, and the list goes on.

siblount commented 2 months ago

The email does not have to end in .com, .org, or .etc. For example, my new email address I am migrating to is: siblount@pm.me. I believe your assertion will fail.

Another example is: siblount@aggies.ncat.edu do-not-reply@sf2tj238t2905205252-252ghm@githubusercontent.eu

skybot00 commented 2 months ago

yes, that is why i put etc after listing some examples, like the list goes on but i did not want to put all of them if that make sense. it was a grammar error on my part.

claesmk commented 2 months ago

This is a little more complicated as there is an RFC that defines valid email addresses, including characters and length. Wikipedia has a good write-up on it