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HBO uses Captcha to prevent bots stealing accounts by brute-forcing passwords/reused passwords from other sites. In other words. It's not anti-piracy mechanism
by shp0ngle 3y ago
HBO uses Captcha to prevent bots stealing accounts by brute-forcing passwords/reused passwords from other sites.
In other words. It's not anti-piracy mechanism, it's protection against account stealing.
- diminutivesloop 3y agoThere should be an exemption from the Captcha for users with strong passwords. And if this spreads maybe we can just annoy everyone into good security practices.
- shp0ngle 3y agoStrong password is still bad if you reuse it on a website with a leaked DB.
- Aachen 3y agoThat's what I don't get. What value is there in such an account? The fear that random persons can watch videos without paying until the owner notices they can't stream because someone else is using the account? Are these accounts held for ransom because the owner doesn't want to lose their watchlist? Can you purchase gift subscriptions using the stored payment method perhaps? It's a nuisance obviously, but for such a tiny fraction of people, honestly not bad if they notice that they got phished or use a password guessable within a handful of tries.