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Big Brother and online Hunger games.

im sorry

Apr 13, 2018 by sihz
but how does this captcha solve the hacking problem? its not like actual bots are logging into other ppl's accounts. The hackers simply found out the pw's..?!?!

this idea is dumb af

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It stops hacking bots
Sent by WannaBeeFriends,Apr 13, 2018
were there actual hacking bots though wannabeefriends
Sent by sihz,Apr 13, 2018
Computer science major here
They use programs that enters a bunch of different usernames and passwords and compares all of the usernames to each password. They probably compared a list of usernames to dictionary words then using brute force which takes forever. Captcha will not allow them to mass login attempt accounts since the program won鈥檛 be able to answer the question
Sent by unkown,Apr 13, 2018
Well that鈥檚 one of many ways but that鈥檚 probably the easiest
Sent by unkown,Apr 13, 2018
makes sense unkown but wasnt there an old data base with the pw's hidden somewhere
Sent by sihz,Apr 13, 2018
AMEN
Sent by NotAfraid,Apr 13, 2018
sihz If that鈥檚 what鈥檚 happening, I would think they would be able to unlock every old user who hasn鈥檛 changed there password in years. That鈥檚 really sad people are committing a crime of a data breach over this website.
Sent by unkown,Apr 13, 2018
i think thats what was done lmao unkown over 100 accounts were broken into using that method i believe. Thanks for your explanation though!
Sent by sihz,Apr 13, 2018

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