[ale] OT: Pay Pal password

[Ben Coleman]

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Christopher Fowler wrote:
> And you know whats funny.  I go and change the password and it tells me
> I can not use the same password as my current password. So if I know my
> current password why is it not letting me in?

I see the same thing.  This tells me that Paypal knows the correct password,
so it must be rejecting the login for a reason other than rejecting the
password.  Could Paypal have an undocumented 'disable logins after X invalid
logins' feature, and someone out there is activating it by attempting logins
to random accounts via the dictionary method?

Ben
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