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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:29:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> After all, those hackers aren't going after my PayPal id because that just
> has money in it. This is much more important, it's LEGO(r) darn it. Not just
> money.

Nice rant.  What does PayPal do if someone tries to break in?  They must have
some kind of fancy delaying system and on-the-fly log checking?  I wonder how
hard it is (or if it's possible) to DoS someone on PayPal.

--Todd



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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) easy - try logging in as someone (or yourself) 5 times, and get the password wrong. then ask for a hint, get that wrong. then they'll disable your account until you get a little note in the mail with your new password. do this to some (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Probably the latter. But maybe (tying threads together) we could have Todd print a bar code that we swiped with our :CueCats to verify it was us (along with a rather easier password that we had to remember) ?? Personally I think one should (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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