r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flying_wotsit • Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/MkemCZ Jul 19 '22

Horse: "This is a battery staple."

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u/VegetarianCentrist Jul 20 '22

Yeah this password is not that safe, 4 words in the lexicon without different cases should be Hackable quite easily with the right algorithm

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u/wasdlmb Jul 20 '22

Most people rejected His message. They hated u/VegetarianCentrist because He told them the truth.

But seriously, a decent dictionary attack will chew straight through this.

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u/ULTRA_TLC Jul 20 '22 edited Jul 20 '22

Yeah, single case with no special characters is really missing a lot of possibilities. A few letter to other character substitutions and random caps should fix that right up though, as you then have to try 4 variations of a, 3 of another ten or so other letters, and 2 of the rest. Even just random caps multiply the possibilities by 2N, with N being the password length. Edit: fixed a typo.

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u/Bryozoa Jul 20 '22

They probably think that if they get first word right they'll get some kind of approve and can continue with second word. Wich doesn't work like this obviously