On Dec 20, 2007, at 21:58 , William Stein wrote:
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> On Dec 20, 2007 10:57 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2007 6:24 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> As pointed out by Michael Abshoff, it seems like an information leak
>>> to list all the usernames
Ondrej Certik wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 9:33 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense --
>>> for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad t
On Dec 21, 2007 9:33 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense --
> > for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad thing,
> > but it
On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense --
> for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad thing,
> but it lends to a scary attack.
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> Robert makes an account on the public notebook.
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That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense -- for
the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad thing, but it
lends to a scary attack.
Robert makes an account on the public notebook.
Robert sees William's account on the failure page, so creates an
On Dec 20, 2007 10:57 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 6:24 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > As pointed out by Michael Abshoff, it seems like an information leak
> > to list all the usernames on a notebook when you fail to use a valid
> > one to lo
On Dec 20, 2007 6:24 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> As pointed out by Michael Abshoff, it seems like an information leak
> to list all the usernames on a notebook when you fail to use a valid
> one to log in. Thoughts?
This exact question comes up about every other week. Are y
