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Nickname released, that's a security problem. Looks as if: org-social.org is a single point of failure? Hmm I wonder if there's ways to solve those problems. 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Nickname released, that's a security problem. Looks as if: org-social.org is a single point of failure? Hmm I wonder if there's ways to solve those problems. 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