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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:33:43 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.people, Mike Faunce writes:
> > > We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now.
> > So ... are you going to tell us what is going to happen nine months from
> > now or just leave us hanging?
> 
> A combination of things...  first, by then there will be more things in
> place that will matter more; second, the pw validator will very likely be
> less stringent; third, I predict that within the next nine months, a major
> online banking site such as PayPal will have a major fiasco in the news with
> tens or hundreds of thousands of user accounts having been either cracked
> via a distributed stealth parallel cracking system or DoS'd through a
> distributed and carefully orchestrated DoS attack based on the principle that
> they lock someone of their account out if a small number of multiple login
> attempts fail rather than having more stringent pw requirements and allowing
> a larger number of fails.
> 
> --Todd

Actually I found PayPal's pw filter to be fairly stringent.

KL



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(...) What do you think about this?-- (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) A combination of things... first, by then there will be more things in place that will matter more; second, the pw validator will very likely be less stringent; third, I predict that within the next nine months, a major online banking site (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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