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This to me is the way to do it. You can limit it to something pretty large like even or 3 tries, wait ten seconds or something. Basically making it normal speed for a human but waaay slow for a computer is the trick to me. A dictionary attack has to try tens of thousands of words and combinations to crack an account.


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