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cammoblammo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I get annoyed when websites say something like, ´Using a password of this strength will take a a hacker one million years to brute force.´

No, it’ll take a million years to try every combination and permutation of allowed characters. Chances are your password will be tried much sooner than that.

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