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Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:17 am
by Cainntear
rdearman wrote:
Josquin wrote:Maybe, you could ask for how many centimetres a metre has instead? Or how many minutes an hour has?

The problem is that bots can use google too. So anything which turns up in the very first google result is used. Which is why we don't use math questions like 1+2= because google will tell the bot the answer. I've tried to come up with questions which a human would need to respond.

The question asked me to add the number of inches in a foot to the number of wheels on a bicycle. I don't think centimetres in a metre would be any more or less bot-friendly than inches in a foot within that context.

Brun Ugle wrote:I didn’t mean random languages. :roll: I meant that the question would match whatever language the person had set as their interface language.

Except the captcha is present before the user is even logged in (notice how you have to reenter your password as well as answering the captcha), so the server can't use their profile at all.

Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:02 pm
by Brun Ugle
Cainntear wrote:
Brun Ugle wrote:I didn’t mean random languages. :roll: I meant that the question would match whatever language the person had set as their interface language.

Except the captcha is present before the user is even logged in (notice how you have to reenter your password as well as answering the captcha), so the server can't use their profile at all.

Oh, OK. I almost never have to do it, so I'm not very familiar with it. (I hope I didn't just jinx myself by saying that.)

Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:23 pm
by Spoonary
Those pesky captcha questions seem to have disappeared for me, so thank you to whoever made that happen :)

Edit: Maybe not :lol:

Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:05 am
by Bluepaint
Spoonary wrote:Those pesky captcha questions seem to have disappeared for me, so thank you to whoever made that happen :)

Edit: Maybe not :lol:


Hopefully that can actually happen soon(ish). I have a plan! Sort of.

Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:56 pm
by Zireael
I keep getting captcha questions, too. Fortunately they have been easy to solve, but what worries me is that they are accompanied by the message that I have exceeded the number of login attempts. I haven't logged in in roughly a year, and I logged earlier today to be asked, and right now to be asked again...

Re: PASSWORD Security

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:31 pm
by Bluepaint
Zireael wrote:I keep getting captcha questions, too. Fortunately they have been easy to solve, but what worries me is that they are accompanied by the message that I have exceeded the number of login attempts. I haven't logged in in roughly a year, and I logged earlier today to be asked, and right now to be asked again...

It's a technical issue, I wouldn't worry too much.