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Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)

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Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Either you or I got wooshed, cause I thought that was a maths joke, not actually an answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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