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  • hackers can prioritize English words

    Yeah, all hundreds of thousands of them. In combinations that don’t make logical sense. Do you have any idea how long that would take?

    Even if I limited myself to a 5 word pass phrase from a word list of 5000, there would be 25989619781251000 possible combinations.

    Make that list the entirety of the English language and there’s no way you’d be able to brute force it before the sun becomes a red giant, let alone during the lifespan of an unhealthy elder millennial 😄




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    The main advantage of a password manager is that you can have a different password for each account. Which means in case of a leak you won’t be in risk of losing other accounts

    Except it’s the opposite: if someone gets the master password for your password manager, that’s all of them.

    And I don’t think I want to remember 300 pass phrases with different words.

    That’s another advantage of the pass phrase over the easily remembered password: repeating an uncrackable passphrase doesn’t pose the risk that repeating a guessable password.

    You can use RentMauriceHouseHurryNow for all your accounts and they’ll all be safer than a billion different strings protected by a single guessable master password.

    Especially if you’re not in the tiny minority of people who actually knows a Maurice who isn’t called The Space Cowboy by some people.