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mk  ·  3330 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it

Sorry. The ability to make a one-letter account was part of a bug introduced when we added the captcha to account creation. Unfortunately, that bug created a pretty big security hole; you could log on as an existing user. Patching that bug killed off one letter accounts, as cool as they were.