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That's my thinking; it seems like it'd be most relevant in a targeted attack. Presumably there aren't so many patterns of usernames that you'd run out of chances to get one.

It's clever! I don't want to take anything away from it, except that I think it's been written up somewhat breathlessly.

Grossman probably has a good point that most applications aren't even superficially protected against clickjacking, and so this isn't going to be a common attack any time soon.




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