Reply to post: Re: "If your password is brute-forceable, you shouldn't be using it."

Don't shame idiots about their idiotically weak passwords

Adam 1

Re: "If your password is brute-forceable, you shouldn't be using it."

> Any password can be brute forced given the time and effort required. This is a completely incorrect way of thinking

Only if you ignore the heat death of the universe. A 15 character random password made up of randomly chosen upper and lower case English characters, if brute forced at a leisurely 60 billion guesses per second will be brute forced in on average 14.5 billion years.

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