note 90582 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown

From: Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:54:31 +0000
Subject: note 90582 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown
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Note Submitter: jjustian ---- marpetr at gmail dot com said: "Very useful to prevent password brute forcing! Simply add few seconds timeout to login script and the probability to guess the password decreases a lot!" Note that this technique won't help against brute force attacks on web-based applications, since each request starts a new process. You'll just have hundreds of instances of your application sleeping while the attack goes on. It's probably inadvisable.

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