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A technique used on systems that leak information on whether a given user exists or not, to get a list of registered users.

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Does correcting misspelled usernames create a security risk?

Allowing username or email iteration may be a security problem for most sites, but not for Facebook. For sites as large as Facebook, finding emails that have accounts is easy because the sites have so …
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