I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit by aj7 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:59PM (#22324070)

For about six months, the Fidelity mobile site gave false indications of incorrect username/password on purpose. No idea why they did this.

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Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit by bennyelv on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:26AM (#22324928)

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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