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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5 How can hackers crack a password through brute force if there's a limit of attempts?
gpt
In some cases, a hacker might gain control of the server and be able to execute their own commands directly to the software on the server or obtain a copy of the database storing the hashed passwords.  In either case, the webpage's limitations on password attempts doesn't matter because the hacker may not be using the webpage to check password attempts.