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Jeff wrote:

> Seriously though, you should start worrying when these 'attacks'
> stop, cause that means the password may have been cracked!

That's a good point. Hopefully the regular password expiration scheme
should limit the time a profile will stay compromised for.

> If the display device and times of the attempts are consistent
> enough to be predictable, a secreted webcam or observation is
> an option.

'Discrete' cameras are now so cheap and small that this is a realistic
option. Another strategy, if it's one particular profile that's being
attacked, might be quietly to create a new production profile for that
user. Keep the old profile alive but limit its access to anything useful.
Set the password of the old profile to something trivial or 'accidentally'
leave it on a PostIt Note by the user's terminal. Then try to catch the old
profile signed on. This strategy, of course, will cease to be viable as
soon as the attacker realises that the target profile has changed.

Dave...

"The sooner we get behind schedule, the more time we will have to make it
up." -- Anon Construction Superintendent

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