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MoonWalk
19 days ago
This demonstrates why forcing people to use E-mail addresses as user IDs is a stupid, stupid policy.
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tsimionescu
19 days ago
Usernames are almost always quasi public knowledge, even when they're not email addresses. The problem here was the existence of a default password, not the fact that you could figure out usernames.
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