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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Not to be pedantic but wouldn't it be IsFirstLoginWithAttemptedPassword or am I missing something?

[โ€“] piracy_is_good_xdd 5 points 2 years ago

No, it's correct - say your password gets leaked across thousands of passwords. A hacker will try to crack all of them with a program that guesses them once, which as the image suggests defeats these types of programs

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