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Comment by MoonWalk

2 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  2 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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