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

Brute force protection

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[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

Not to be pedantic but wouldn't it be IsFirstLoginWithAttemptedPassword or am I missing something?

No, it's correct - say your password gets leaked across thousands of passwords. A hacker will try to crack all of them with a program that guesses them once, which as the image suggests defeats these types of programs

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