Bruting

[Arcade$]

Ok, so it's basically trying different password combinations to get access to an account.

[Special]

Ok, so it's basically trying different password combinations to get access to an account.

yes, you're basically trying to guess a password

[Arcade$]

Ok, thanks.

[Eoin247]

I hope you aint gona try this.

[Arcade$]

Of course not I just have heard the term being used a lot on Habbo.

[Zak]

To be honest brute forcing in itself can take hours, days, months, years to try all the combinations. The term you're probably looking for is a dictionary attack.

[Jin]

To be honest brute forcing in itself can take hours, days, months, years to try all the combinations. The term you're probably looking for is a dictionary attack.

Bingo bango.

To be picky, brute forcing isn't an attempt to try every possible password combination but a list of user defined possible passwords.

Trying every possible password would take longer than a system would be worth quite literally years, most systems have brute protection some are less invasive as others.

For example Habbo and nearly every email provider use a "captcha" or Image verification after x number of failed logins. A captcha is an image displayed where the user types the characters they see in the image as only a human could do this and not a program though some weaker captcha's can be completed by sophisticated bruting software.

Other systems are more aggressive against brute forcing, on Habbox if you enter a password incorrectly 3 times on any of our staff systems it will ban you automatically from our network rendering all Habbox sites unreachable and stopping the brute force attempt.

[Josh]

IF you managed to get a program that got past the captcha, and got the password, Habbo detect if they finally get a successful log in after so many tries. This happened to me when I bruted my old account's DOB (so I could change the pass). 3000 tries later, I got logged in but it got banned over the next few weeks.

[Arcade$]

If I am honest, one of my accounts from 2001 got accused of being bruted and I had no idea what this meant. I contacted Habbo to ask exactly what was going on and am awaiting a reply.

[triston220]

Bingo bango.

To be picky, brute forcing isn't an attempt to try every possible password combination but a list of user defined possible passwords.

It doesn't even have to be user defined. It's just trying different passwords; random or user defined, it's still brute forcing.