Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
by wolco on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:49AM
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For a minute usually. Prevents flooding. Not a bad approach unless the account is constantly hit. In those cases two factor auth makes sense.
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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
by DownGoat on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:27AM
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This is obviously a bad idea. It costs nothing for an attacker to send 3 http requests, every minute, every hour, all day. They could lock your account basically forever. IP filtering and locking accounts are terrible ways of preventing password spraying.