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This has of course been our area of study for many years and indeed we see that
for many sites a significant percentage of their traffic is non-paying traffic from password
sites, forums, and IRC channels. I think the more damaging part is still the load and cost
generated in acute cases where a site's passwords get posted to several popular trading
sites at once, generating huge amounts of traffic all of the sudden. That can essentially
shut down a site due to the load and is the real reason we were forced to create Strongbox
in an effort to protect our servers. Fortunately, the bad guys haven't advanced their
technology all that much over the last several years, since they effectively defeated
IP counters several years ago. That means that modern protection systems like
Strongbox can pretty much protect you. However, the bad guys are working on some
new terchniques and we expect that their OCR systems will be truly effective relatively
soon, so the industry does need to stay a step ahead and to that end we're developing our
own new technologies like the biometric indicators in the next version of Strongbox
which you may get a preview of quite soon on a couple of the largest sites in industry.
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