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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

There should be an error, but it shouldn't say whether it was the email or password that was wrong.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~An attacker would still know the account exists, and they would know the password did not match.~~

~~Or you're assuring them that specific password is used by some account, just not this one. Which is even worse.~~

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Read the comment you're responding to, again. Nothing about their suggestion leads to either of these scenarios.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Right, I misread "shouldn't" for "should".

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