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Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
(www.cc.gatech.edu)
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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A character that extends outside the real number line
My characters extends outside time and space.
Make for very secure passwords.
Thanks for this, I knew the concept but I've always had a hard time putting it to words. Yeah, its not like they increase the entropy or anything. Same with diacritics
Reminds me of when Michael tells Dwight he and Jim make different amounts: its not about higher or lower, its just different
Either you or I got wooshed, cause I thought that was a maths joke, not actually an answer.
If your password is onky made up of numbers and there's no or a faulty anti-replay feature, you can just keep tryinguntil you iterate to the right password.
People used to do it with 4 digit PINs