I don't think that the above comment means brute-forcing in the "try a million different passwords in a short time-period" sense, it's referring to finding a li

I don't think that the above comment means brute-forcing in the "try a million different passwords in a short time-period" sense, it's referring to finding a list of known password and email combinations and trying just those. I would expect that a few attempts wouldn't trip any brute-force alarms.