I'm willing to bet that you will disable your account for a period of time if you type in the wrong username/password 10 times. Every reputable web site that requires security does this now to foil brute force bots. I cannot believe Apple would overlook that issue.
Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...I still wonder whether this is evidence of Apple security being > compromised (big problem for all) versus a simple numbers game exploiting > user stupidity/laziness (more fool them). > > A web-crawler captures publicly listed email addresses, these then get tested > as iTunes logins, coupled with the top-10 worst passwords. The surprising > stat would be if there are merely 50,000 iTunes users that are that > sufficiently stupid and/or lazy? > > There are probably more than 50,000 youtube videos showing monitors in the > background that are covered in post-its with passwords and banking details! > :-) > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
