---
id: 520
title: "Can you hit a moving target?"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/can-you-hit-a-moving-target"
published_at: "2008-04-30T21:45:00Z"
tags: ["authentication", "passwords", "snake-oil", "threat-analysis", "security-marketing"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/520"
lang: en
---

# Can you hit a moving target?

## Summary

An analysis of 'unbreakable' devices that change the password every 60 seconds: probabilistically, rapidly rotating passwords add little security over static ones — such marketing is snake oil.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2008-04-30T21:45:00Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/can-you-hit-a-moving-target
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/520