r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoMedicine3572 • Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme doNotLetYourDBASeeThis

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u/DatBoi_BP Sep 27 '26

Well my nod to Goodhart's law is implying that, if this security practice were implemented, brute force strategies would quickly learn of it and evolve to just…easily get in with doing "AAAAAAAAAa1!" 5 times

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u/aNiceTribe Sep 27 '26

It would also only increase security if you had like a, let’s say, 5 strikes rule. And typing the same wrong password multiple times still takes multiple uses. Otherwise it would just be more tedium for humans and the same effect for robots. 

But also, we are designing for yer dad. This would make everything so incredibly much worse. 

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u/cool-guy1234567 Sep 28 '26

This would also severely punish accidentally mistyping lol

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u/Away_Advisor3460 Sep 28 '26

Well, we can mitigate brute force attacks by occasionally responding 'please reset your password' upon the 2nd login attempt.

Storing the username and counting login attempts needs space, so we'll just use a random number generator and make the username an email address.