and-rad / heyapple

Food & nutrient tracker, recipe manager, shopping list generator
https://heyapple.org
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Improve user enumeration protection #5

Closed and-rad closed 1 year ago

and-rad commented 2 years ago

When a user account doesn't exist, visitors are currently informed about that in at least two security-critical situations:

There are more elegant ways to rephrase user-facing messages and remodel notification behavior that mitigate the security risk and don't sacrifice UX in the process. See here for some inspiration.

Some useful links: