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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
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Brute force protection

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[โ€“] gibmiser@lemmy.world 127 points 9 months ago (8 children)

As a non programmer, is the joke that humans will retype their password assuming that they made a typo?

If so, sick indeed.

[โ€“] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 9 months ago

Yeah, hackers have automated tools and they will, of course, only try each password once.

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