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Written by Frank Podmore 🌹✊ on 2025-01-08 at 11:52

Instead of telling me I've mistyped my password, Windows now gives a baffling message about how it can't sign me in right now, which has a completely different meaning

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Written by Frank Podmore 🌹✊ on 2025-01-08 at 11:54

Just ridiculous. 'Should we give our users useful information? No.'

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Written by Frank Podmore 🌹✊ on 2025-01-08 at 11:54

(I realise this is my fault for still using Windows)

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Written by Space Hobo on 2025-01-08 at 11:59

@frankpodmore Eh, security standards have tightened up in lots of places, doing stuff like this in order to avoid signalling too much to attackers. If you tell them they got a username right but not the password saves them time when brute-forcing.

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Written by Frank Podmore 🌹✊ on 2025-01-08 at 12:22

@spacehobo That's fair, but then a simple 'Something went wrong, please try again' would be more helpful!

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