Posted on 08/27/2021 8:28:03 PM PDT by Jonty30
I’m guessing the accounts were hacked, not the site. Brute force password hack.
“I would suggest logging out for the next day or two.”
Good plan. I trust the programmers at FR 100%. Some punk is just posting lame stuff, because he is bored. My email gets five spams a day and it is easy to fix and ignore.
Does it help to mark the bad posts, or can you guys just do a mass delete?
What is the expected timetable for shutting down the spamming?
Can the affected accounts be restricted from posting articles?
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Should folks logoff?
If passwords were hacked by brute-force then is the site providing unlimited login attempts and not blocking frequent failers? If that’s so then your password is practically no protection at all and they can all be guessed, weak or strong.
I just changed my password. Frankly, it was years old and not that good. Everyone should consider making a change.
Don’t know. If there were a three try limit or something, and people were using crappy passwords, such as their username, then the script could just try the username as the password for each account. Might get 1% of accounts
If passwords were hacked by brute-force then is the site providing unlimited login attempts and not blocking frequent failers? If that’s so then your password is practically no protection at all and they can all be guessed, weak or strong.
The time to guess a password doubles as a password gets one character longer.
According to Twitter, this account is suspended for violation of Twitter's rules, which is: 1)You gotta hate the USA and 2)You are a terrorist organization... 🤓
Oops... Twitter hacked into FR... 🤓
Missed it all, darn it! That’s what I get for going to bed early.
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