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>You have to evaluate the type of account disclosure that was possible against your own use cases.

Exactly. Evaluating risk levels and weighing tradeoffs accurately is taking security seriously. Overreacting to insanely unlikely scenarios is not.

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Yes, but you might not understand me. I meant they are assuming they are doing the evaluating on behalf of their customers. I'm the customer and I've got to do the evaluating , but I might not understand the potential but telling me there is almost no issue doesn't help me do that.

If they understand security better than their customers, it's correct for them to say so when an issue doesn't require customers to individually review whether they are affected.

If they misjudge that, it isn't an indication that they don't "take security seriously". It just means they made an error in judgment.

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