Re: THREE STRIKES...

[Nicolas MONNET]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

|And the other way around, there is three gazillion open proxies you can
|abuse to make requests from different ip addresses.
|
|Or a determined attacker might have a lot of different local ip addresses
|at his disposal he can make requests from.

Let's be realistic on this one: if the idea is to prevent brute force
attacks, the fact that the attacker might use a few dozens or for that
matter a few hundreds IPs won't matter much.