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by aj7 2318 days ago
For about six months, the Fidelity mobile site gave false indications of incorrect username/password on purpose. No idea why they did this.
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I can see that it could be effective against brute force attacks. A real user would assume they fat fingered their password and try it again, a brute force attack would miss the password and carry on forever.