Timeline for Dealing with violating privacy of registered users during failed authentication
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 7:14 | comment | added | Wilt | @starbeamrainbowlabs That is possible, but what about direct feedback inside the user interface of the application? It is not really an option show something in the line of: "Error messages are sent to your email". | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 16:22 | comment | added | starbeamrainbowlabs | You could always send the user an email containing the error message saying "there is already an account registered against this email address". That way, only the owner of the email address will see the error message. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 6:34 | vote | accept | Wilt | ||
| May 25, 2018 at 10:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/999962621028782080 | ||
| May 17, 2018 at 17:05 | history | edited | Wilt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| May 17, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Wilt | Before voting for closing I kindly ask to reconsider because of the fact that the word "privacy" is not mentioned a single time in the "possible duplicate". The other question and answers are mainly focusing on the security side of this issue. | |
| May 17, 2018 at 16:56 | history | edited | Wilt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 337 characters in body |
| May 16, 2018 at 11:08 | answer | added | reed | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 16, 2018 at 10:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 16, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | Anders | Or: security.stackexchange.com/questions/181240/… | |
| May 16, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | Anders | Possible duplicate of Generic error message for wrong password or username - is this really helpful? | |
| May 16, 2018 at 9:23 | comment | added | Niels van Reijmersdal | I think the UX Q&A might be a better location for this question, similar questions have been answered there: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/110415/… | |
| May 16, 2018 at 9:21 | answer | added | Niels van Reijmersdal | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 16, 2018 at 8:58 | history | edited | Anders | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 67 characters in body; edited tags; edited title |
| May 16, 2018 at 8:53 | history | asked | Wilt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |