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by rsanek 699 days ago
surely it won't hurt. at minimum, it makes the attacker's job much harder -- their window to exploit becomes max 30 seconds instead of however long you don't change your password.
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Tools like evilnginx proxy the traffic, then grab the auth token / cookie after a successful login. From there you can send the session tokens to something like necrobrowser to automatically do whatever you want with the account. The whole hack can happen in seconds.