[bagels]

It's at best parroting a the most common layman beliefs, which may not agree with the law. That stood out to me too. Now I want to read about what dumb thing the site did to even make this possible. Ods should have been random, not hashes of pii

[iudqnolq]

I can see why this would seem to be a clever way to implement passwordless sticky pseudonymous usernames, but it is indeed quite stupid.