note 28912 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown

From: Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:39:19 +0000
Subject: note 28912 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown
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Note Submitter: josh at NO chatgris SPAM dot com ---- Contrary to previous posts, sleep provides not security whatsoever against crackers. They can quite easily create a multithreaded program that will try 1000 passwords at a time effectively disabling your sleep pause, and sessions don't help as each a request can make itself look like a new session. The only way to make this effective at all is to store the last time a user attempted to login in a database and onyl allow x tries per time period.

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