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Jeff Atwood on limited login attempts: Dictionary Hacks 101
Jeff Atwood over at his blog, Coding Horror, gives a little lesson in the reasons why websites should limit their number of login attempts. He uses the recent hacking of Twitter as an example. “Clearly, the last thing you want to do is give attackers carte blanche to run unlimited login attempts. All it takes [...]
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