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Brute force protection (rytter.me)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Brute force protection

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Won't protect against an offline attack (just will confuse the hell out of the hacker) but might confound an online attack? Until someone gets wise and runs the tool a second time. Loving the chaotic neutral vibes here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't really even protect against online attacks though. Like, if you're going through a list of known accounts, by definition it won't be any of those accounts' first time logging in, right?

And if you're not going through a list of known accounts, good luck getting anywhere with your attack any time this millennia

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This would be per session, not lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This makes it even more cursed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Function naming could use some work then, it's not obvious that isFirstLoginAttempt would be session-aware.

Sorry, I'll stop being pedantic now