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Kushan

21-07-2015 18:02

Re: Are you a robot

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35789849)

As far as I can tell it's to prevent spam registrations only. Having a captcha after a valid login as well is... indeed strange. But I've never seen it on any login, VM or otherwise. On VM's site right now I only see it under the register link.

I see it on quite a lot of login pages after a failed attempt or two. I'd prefer that over a lockout period.

qasdfdsaq

22-07-2015 10:32

Re: Are you a robot

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35789862)

I see it on quite a lot of login pages after a failed attempt or two. I'd prefer that over a lockout period.

Yes, after one or two failed logins it makes sense, to prevent automated attacks as well as intentional DoS. But not after a successful login... Unless it's some cheap alternative to 2-factor authentication?

Kushan

23-07-2015 07:26

Re: Are you a robot

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35789931)

I've never seen it after a login, I've seen other systems like those that send an email with a link or a code - that would be 2FA, but I don't think a CAPTCHA fulfils the "something you have" aspect? Unless you "have" eyeballs :P.

JayAy

24-07-2015 10:42

Re: Are you a robot

I wouldn't worry about this. Just think of all the fun and games to come when VM migrate evryone's emails away from Google to something they claim to have created themselves.

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