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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/20/2013 09:24 PM, Patrick
O'Callaghan wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Tim
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<div id=":37e" style="overflow:hidden">e.g. A fool uses
some webservice that asks you to log in with your<br>
hotmail username and password, so they do, despite the
face that this<br>
webservice is not hotmail.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Not quite what you're saying but
tangentially related: many web sites are confusing to the
naive user. They ask you to register using your email address
and a password, without making it clear that they don't mean
the password for the email account. I'm sure more than a few
people have been caught by that. It doesn't mean the website
is malicious, but now the attack front on the password has
been expanded.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">poc<br>
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I've noticed that they prefer/require email address as user name to
reduce the instance of simplistic user names while remaining
memorable.<br>
There's nothing to stop one using a fictitious email address as a
user name provided one remembers it when needed. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:qwertuyt@qwe.bv">qwertuyt@qwe.bv</a>
once worked for me along with similary stupid trials.<br>
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