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Probably. But its not a big deal. If you keep your cookies, and select FOREVER for login, you never have to relogin unless of course you use different computers all the time (i.e. library, school, etc...)
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My .02: I'd like to vote that the number entering step for login be removed. There are those of us who have cookies, etc cleared automatically for security reasons. Having a number verification for registering as a user is fine and prevents automatic signups...but what does forcing already regged users to enter this number help with security wise? I like to use my Opera Wand to log in without entering anything.
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FastMHz wrote ...
My .02: I'd like to vote that the number entering step for login be removed. There are those of us who have cookies, etc cleared automatically for security reasons. Having a number verification for registering as a user is fine and prevents automatic signups...but what does forcing already regged users to enter this number help with security wise? I like to use my Opera Wand to log in without entering anything.
Yeah, I too think it's quite useless to 'secure' a log-in procedure.
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I think the mods should remove the number entry step and see if there is a bot problem...if so, put it back and we would all understand. This is the only forum on the web that I visit that requires this extra code entry.
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At the moment, it is needed. Otherwise it is a fairly simple matter for a bot to grab the memberlist and try frequently used passwords on each one. It also makes it fairly hard to try to brute-force someone's password, as has happened before. One clever person in the past wrote a script to try to guess my password. In order to evade automatic detection, it only guessed once a second or so, and used as many different IPs as possible by using all sorts of proxies. Ultimately, the result was failure, but they were able to cover a lot of passwords before I was able to figure out something was up.
I don't see how it's that much work, anyhow. Just typing up this post has taken a great deal of thought and time. Reading and writing a six digit number would seem to be relatively inconsequentual, especially if you've already got a completion wizard of some sort filling out the username and password.
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and by the way; could a bot do much harm? (maybe posting spam or something)
