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Comment by maxheadroom

>Not sure what the angle is?

Maybe a new version of the directory harvest attack[0]?

For example, if someone has an email address (or list of email addresses) from somewhere else, one can easily tell if you (or they) have a Facebook account by simply requesting a password reset against it (them). If there's no throttling on password reset requests, one could process a large list rather quickly.

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipient-filterin...

parent maxheadroom 6 years ago

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