Reply to post: Re: Blatant lies

Kaspersky Password Manager's random password generator was about as random as your wall clock

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Re: Blatant lies

"This issue was only possible in the unlikely event that the attacker knew the user’s account information and the exact time a password had been generated. It would also require the target to lower their password complexity settings."

Maybe it's blatant lies. Probably not though, because blatant lies is not a good PR look in the long term. More likely Dunning-Kruger, so it's what the pseudo-genius who used a pseudo-random generator actually thinks about password security. If so, don't blame only the pseudo-genius. Reserve some disdain for the Kaspersky manager that hired them, and for the PR flack who is uncritically passing on the pseudo-explanation.

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