2012-04-11, 10:49 PM
Promised Wrote:I'm not a computer-technical person, but by reading Eos' explanation, would the rationale behind having an email user ID be safer relate to the account packets in question being extrapolated (if say, the theory was true)?
No.
Whether you use your user name, or your email address, those are just dummy mnemonics that point to your user id. Your user ID is a number, set in stone, identifying your account. The other two, regardless of which you use, are just semantic aliases for that user id. If someone can access your account via the user id it doesn't matter what the alias is, they're going directly passed it.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.