@dalias exactly. They could also have trivially made wishlists with that setting private, which would at least limit the immediate harm, but that doesn't goose the wishlist metrics
Alex R
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PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. -
PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize.@dalias every single engineer I've seen talking about this has immediately identified this attack, so it's guaranteed that this will be exploited right away if it goes ahead (and also that Amazon absolutely knows about it)