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		rocketbop on Dec 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Invalid username or password” is a useless securi... That's interesting. I always felt that repeating that field was a sort of faux validation, but maybe not! Well, a lot of people do not know their own phone number.

shdon on Dec 2, 2014 [–]

I've seen mistype rates of close to 20% without the second field. Still, my boss won't allow me to put in the second field because he feels it would hurt the user experience.

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