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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:45:08 GMT
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:29:46PM +0000, Tood Lehman wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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 unsuspecting fool, and you have shut down their account for at least a
couple of week...
or at least that's what I remember of the (very) painful proccess of me
forgetting my paypal password...
:)
Dan
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| (...) Are you serious, or joking?! (I assume you're serious.) Egad, if they don't also block IP addresses after someone does that, then it's only a matter of time before there's a massive DoS attack against a hundred thousand or a million random (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) 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 (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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