mozilla/browserid — Issue #840: Shortened email displayed in browserid.org/signup page
Author: hannosch
Created: 2012-01-04 22:13:18+00:00
State: open

I'm trying to create a new browserid.org account. After entering my email address hschlichting@mozilla.com, I get a new page telling me about the confirmation email I should receive (url: https://browserid.org/signup).

That page contains: "We sent a confirmation email to hsch. To finish signing up just click the verify link we sent to your email address."

Note how my email address was shortened to the first four characters. This left me wondering if this is an obscurity feature to avoid showing my full email. If that's the case, it's not obvious and at least something like an ellipsis should be shown. But I don't see why showing the full email should be a problem here and so maybe this is just a bug :)

[first reported at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715324 and moved here]