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>information the users provided years ago

Just curious, but what in particular? Their profile page, logs of forum conversations? And how does he/she generate the guesses? It seems like optimally you'd have some kind of tool which constructs permutations of likely words (sun, 5un, sun!, etc).

...Honestly just curious, promise I'm not planning anything evil.




She doesn't use any tech like that, no. Profile page is one source of information. It happens to be a site where people share a lot of interests and things like that, so there are a number of profile pages. She finds out what they named their possessions, on this account and others. She searches the usernames in other places. A lot of times she also finds or guesses an email address which hotmail deleted years ago, makes it, and then the site sends the password to her new account.




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