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aj7
on Feb 14, 2020
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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visi...
For about six months, the Fidelity mobile site gave false indications of incorrect username/password on purpose. No idea why they did this.
bennyelv
on Feb 14, 2020
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I can see that it could be effective against brute force attacks. A real user would assume they fat fingered their password and try it again, a brute force attack would miss the password and carry on forever.
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