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submitted 8 months ago by anders@rytter.me to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Brute force protection

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 131 points 8 months ago

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

If so, sick indeed.

[-] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 8 months ago

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

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