Passwords stored by Firefox

[Heinz Diehl]

On 16.02.2015, Tim wrote: 

> > Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words
> > like "feasibility", "speed" and the like. You will be blown away by
> > reading what can be done. 
 
> Of course that kind of implies that you have something that will let you
> continuously try different passwords upon it, instead of denying you
> after a few failures.

As you point out, all is a matter of your thread model. Said that, a software
counter can easily be circumventet. You could just recompile the program with
the counter diabled, you could take a backup of the original counter and many
more...