Syeed Ali via plug on 23 May 2022 14:38:23 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Correct Horse Battery Staple


On Mon, 23 May 2022 15:48:36 -0400
Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

> That is the hazard with passphrases.  The more you adjust them using
> your brain, the more likely it is that somebody can predict it by
> using some kind of source of word associations, like words found near
> each other in all public domain books or something like that.

Like lyrics and poems.

There's still some brute forcing required, and it's nice that there are
some security measures that are possible for most things.  I've played
with a WordPress installation and this sort of thing has to be done
after the fact.  Unfortunately I didn't have access to anything
server-side, but I'm sure there's stuff at that side of things too.
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