6-digit temp passwords with 30-min expiry: security theater or reasonable trade-off?

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Stack Team App's password reset workflow hands users a 6-digit numeric code (1 million combinations) valid for 30 minutes. Brute-forcing that space in half an hour is trivially scriptable, suggesting the real defense is email-channel control rather than code entropy. It is a useful case study in how consumer apps conflate UX simplicity with genuine security.

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