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someone doing a few failed logins before successfully logging in won't look all that different than someone doing a few failed logins and then giving up, which is what most humans would do (as opposed to scripts).

people naturally tend to have a small number of cross products of usernames and passwords...once it gets too large we start forgetting parts of it.

a couple times in the past year i've forgotten my password for hn. after the first time it happened i wrote it down so i wouldn't lose my precious karma.




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