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Re:Security Checklist by justinclift on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:14AM (#11328159)
> As you could imagine, it takes several tries, dozen or two, maybe even three - depending on that cool password validator of yours.

That's confusing. Are you saying 3 dozen login attempts for an existing account shouldn't trigger a lock out?

That seems unusual. ;)

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Re:Security Checklist by xpinguin on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:48AM (#11334656)
No, it should not. Why it is unusual? Happens to me from time to time (not exactly three dozens, though, 20-25 attempts).
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Re:Security Checklist by justinclift on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:03PM (#11340306)
Lockouts on the 5th attempt is fairly common.

If you need 20-30 attempts to get into your own account... that sounds like you're doing something wrong. :(

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