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I just love your accent – please, have a new password

Terry 6 Silver badge

Re: Caller ID = Your routines suck!

User name fields are often able to show previously typed entries - whether they were correct or not.

And that means that they will also display passwords- when the user has accidentally typed it into the wrong space.

So if the username field shows something totally unlike a username/very like a password, it's almost certainly a password. And the username that goes with it will usually be in the same list, of course.

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