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Re:Password-less login on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:44AM (#13947725)
This leaks some information about the user's email address. If you suspect one of your users is (say) "[email protected]", you can email [email protected].

Then, call notifyOnEmail({from: "[email protected]", to: "[email protected]"}) in every session on your site.

If Jean happened to be logged in, you've just identified her.

Spam filters would probably stop you brute-forcing the address of every visitor, but they might not help if you already have a good guess.

Requiring user approval will stop most of this, although it won't block queries like "are [email protected] and [email protected] the same person?".