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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?
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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 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.
I was thinking more from the perspective of what you are going to create that
will have a span of 9 months and not what might happen on the internet outside
of LUGNET in 9 months.
This still doesn't explain why you have a sophisticated password system
(including a dictionary of 3 million words in 20 languages which I assume is
for the password check alone?) that doesn't really protect any vital
information while at the same time you have a security hole on the other end
where people can post under other's names.
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