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It’s not a “guise” and not out of laziness.

It’s impossible to guarantee that the reason can’t get back to bad actors if you give that information out to anybody, so that information isn’t given out. If you can figure out a way, you’d have a bigger license to print money than Google and Amazon, combined. The problem is, rfc-3514 aside, there’s no evil “bit” and no way to tell if the person making a request is good or bad, or if they’re even the person who’s account they’re using. Don’t forget the possibility of an “inside job” either.

Sorry for the bad developer experience, but fighting all the various kinds of fraud is harder than it looks. Thankfully ML's made strides in this area.




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