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Nefarious (files.mastodon.social)

Image transcripion: The text contains the phrase "Hey! What's going on?" followed by the phrase "Sick bastard!". Below that is some code that appears to be related to password verification.


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[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Most sites randomize this slightly to make you doubt yourself. To prevent brute forces from getting lucky, it’s more likely to happen the more tries you do per ip address.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

most sites

I’d be interested to see some data on that. Using a password manager, I almost never type my password, and I’ve definitely never had an invalid password error across the like 180 sites in my password manager when it’s being autofilled correctly

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