Comment by eapressoandcats
6 months ago
Even weak passwords is almost a nonissue. No one gets even millions of tries against most passwords due to lockouts, whereas credential stuffing is a perpetual security nightmare.
Uniqueness is the number one thing that matters. The modal attack is a remote credential stuffing attack by someone trying millions of email/password combinations from a database.
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