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Recently I was thinking about alternative ways of implementing authorization security and I had, maybe a silly, idea - wouldn't it be more secure to always log user in and when given a wrong password, "simulate" (generate) account data? In my opinion it would be much harder to write an algorithm detecting if account data is real or not, and isn't the point of cracking to get access to user data?


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