Answer by nategood for Why does the Stack Overflow login form tell you...
Many people are very quick to point out that hinting that an email exists in the system as part of a login error is a bad idea. What most people don't talk about is that nearly all of those systems...
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Jeff Atwood addressed this point in a relatively recent blog post relating to his experience making a login for Discourse. I assume the same mentality is held at Stack Overflow:OK, so we know that...
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As others in the comments said - Stack Overflow isn't a bank. We don't need to have the kind of security that a bank does.Additionally (also mentioned in comments), there is a trade off between making...
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Why does the Stack Overflow login form tell you whether a specific login...
I've noticed something on the Stack Overflow login page: detecting if an email address has been used by a user for registration is actually possible.In short, when you want to log in with an email that...
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