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🛡️ Brute Force Defense
The math behind 4-digit PINs, lockout cycles, exponential backoff, honeypots, and self-lockout recovery
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Quiz
01What two compounding defenses make a 4-digit PIN actually defensible?
02Why is per-IP lockout correct, not per-user lockout?
03Why is auto-lifting 'exceeded_retry' blacklist entries (e.g. after 1 hour) the right default for solo apps?
04What's the role of a honeypot endpoint like /wp-admin in a custom Python app?
05What's the always-available escape hatch when you've locked yourself out of the PIN system?
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