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submitted 7 months ago by anders@rytter.me to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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Brute force protection

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I never got that rule. Surely it is less secure to keep records of historical passwords than to let someone rotate between !!!! And #### etc

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Hopefully they're not sitting the old passwords in plain text and just have the hashes.

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