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Passwords as usernames, human sacrifice, dogs living with cats. Mass hysteria!

Seriously though, I can't understand what their rationale for this would be. Not to mention, as other commenters have pointed out, how they will handle all the users whose former passwords were common phrases like password, secret, ilovebieber, etc. will now be duplicates.



1. "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Username=\"" + $username + "\" AND Password=\"" + $password + "\""

2. Don't allow changing usernames, unlikely to allow changing passwords

3. Indexes? What are indexes?




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