Even worse the silent invalidation of a correct password.
Use password manager.
Can’t log in, because “password is incorrect”… Fuck you! It is not! I copied in the same fucking thing as months before! If you want to force me to change it then say it! Asshole!
I swear Microsoft does that.
isFirstSuccessfulLoginAttempt
Important distinction.
Yeah, as it is it only works if the brute force algorithm gets it on the first try.
Or the variables are terribly named
No, it just means you have to type in the correct password twice in a row.
Boho sort is O(1) in the best case scenario
How does this ‘kinda work’?
It rejects the first [correct] login attempt (it’s worded poorly). It assumes that a brute force attacker will try any given password once and move on, while a human user will think they made a typo and try again. This works until the attacker realizes that it takes two attempts, in which case it merely doubles the attempts required to breach the account, and simply requiring an additional password character would be vastly more effective.
What a shitty user experience for regular users.
Yup it’s like how software companies will get a hate on for pirates and take it out on their loyal paying cutosmers
Look, we all need to pay a little for the greater good of security.
/s
which is why they made a comic instead of a revolutionary thought leading blog post
Hey now, I’m sure there’s someone on LinkedIn suggesting this exact thing with layers of corporate speak.
Just like captcha
Agreed, and also makes it readily known that that is what you are doing.
The sneakier more user friendly way to implement it would be to require the second correct attempt only if the user has made an incorrect attempt since the last successful login.
All tools that bruteforce passwords attempt each password only once, and if it doesn’t work, discard it. Nobody really runs 2 identical attacks back to back (they’re incredibly slow when done over the internet), so the password would seem uncrackable at first glance.
This approach wouldn’t work with hash cracking, vault breaking or file encryption, because once they get their hands on the hash/vault/file, the attacker can use their own code for hashing/checking a password candidate.
They’ll change the correct password every time because they are told it is wrong.
Don’t worry, a not-insignificant number of users probably use “Forgot Password?” every time because they can’t keep track of the correct one. Lol
I suspect this is why we started to see all those “use a temporary password instead” options lately. XD
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You are very confident in your ability to not make a typo.
How to make a typo when using password manager?
I tell you how. Password manager fills the input just a bit too fast so that misused react handler goes into race condition and skips last character.
You’re still typing PWs? I c&p them from Keepass.
I prefer a password system that I can memorise or derive.
Although, fair, I do also use a pm.How do you log on to your computer?
On my last job we had fingerprint scanners for that.
Memorize the disk encryption password, memorize the keepass database password… wallah
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