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People have bank passwords, social media accounts (which can be used in all sorts of nefarious ways), etc. Some may be 2FA protected, some may not be. Some may
by arp242 2y ago
People have bank passwords, social media accounts (which can be used in all sorts of nefarious ways), etc. Some may be 2FA protected, some may not be. Some may be protected by bad faux-2FA.
Just because there aren't million at stake doesn't mean you can't bring someone to ruin.
- loumf 2y agoYou can try millions of passwords on a wallet without anything stopping you. You only get a few guesses on a bank site.
- Borealid 2y agoIf you only get a few guesses on a bank site, then you can inconvenience large numbers of users cheaply.
- lucasban 2y agoSure, but I’d take being inconvenienced over having my accounts compromised
- Gigachad 2y agoMost users are going to be already logged in on their phone apps so they won’t be affected. And the inconvenience is most likely going to be chucking up a captcha to prevent automated attempts.
- loumf 2y agoYou can do this without reverse engineering a password algorithm.