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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
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Brute force protection

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[–] piracy_is_good_xdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

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