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@@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ similar to the ``root`` account on UNIX.
The following documentation shows how to handle any instance, so you should read
it twice, first creating the ``default`` instance, then creating normal ones.
+.. note::
+ A security concern is that instance existence is leaked by normal API usage.
+ This means unauthorized users can distinguish between the case where the
+ instance does not exist (HTTP 404) and the case where access is denied
+ (HTTP 403).
+
KUDOS Accounts
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