Wait why would a bot hack my password?
Wait why would a bot hack my password?
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Why? A bot might hack your password: to take overthe worldyour account.
Well, at any rate one of the nastier things people can do with bot accounts is post advert spam (we've seen a couple of those), check your e-mail address to hook you up for SPAM mail (am not sure if it shows up, but would be on the wishlist for quite a few bot-masters if it did), use your signature space for (links to) malicious content by which the bot-masters may hijack other peoples browsers.
Or just shut you out of the ORG unless you create a new account. Which may be tricky if the ORG has duplicate account filters based on, say, e-mail addresses?
Strong passwords as in really very strong are very long and very random. So you usually get the best by using a random password generator and use, say 20 characters. That means a bot could have to go through as much as ~10^21 rounds of guesswork. (= beyond practical with the keep-you-out-for-x-mins after 3 consecutive failed attempts) In order for it to actually work it would even have to keep a list of foolish attempts it made. A big list if your lucky. A short one if not, because it remains a matter of chance.
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