On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ricardo Berlasso <rgb.m...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2013/11/3 F C. Costero <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com>
>
> > I and another moderator have both gotten a message claiming "maximum
> number
> > of log in attempts exceeded" when we tried to log into the en forum. I
> did
> > not get that message when logging into the es forum. We could log in
> > successfully after properly entering a Captcha. Perhaps this a a result
> of
> > the recent software changes.
> > Regards,
> > Francis
> >
>
>
> It happened to me too, but only on the EN forum. I think the problem is not
> related with the https change, at least not directly. In fact, I remember
> that something like this happened a couple or years ago, and the conclusion
> at the time was that there was some kind of "brute force attack" to gain
> access to the forum looking for a weak password. If that's true, then the
> https came in right time :)
>
> Regards,
> Ricardo
>
Well after 5 attempts, I finally got in. Not sure what the problem was...
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