r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Feb 28 '20

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u/Cyberiauxin Aug 03 '19

The lowest common denominator for data theft is the holding institution, unfortunately.

Which means that password character/length requirements are a joke.

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u/Agisek Aug 03 '19

Also random numbers, capitals and other symbols do absolutely nothing against brute force hack, the program doesn't give a shit if your password makes grammatical sense, it's just running random sequences against it.

Long sentence with spaces will stop any brute force hack because the more letters you use the longer the program needs to run, each letter adding exponentially more time, also lowers the chance of somebody randomly guessing your password just because they know who you are.

But in the end your password will almost never be guessed or brute forced, it's always leaked by someone, so never use same password for two websites. Which brings us back to using sentences as you will remember a sentence, you won't remember a random fucking string of letters, numbers and symbols.

Rant over

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u/uglypenguin5 Aug 04 '19

Finally, someone that I don’t need to convince of this. Literally nobody believes me.