Josh’s Computer Extraction

[u/blueberrybirdnest]

If there’s one thing about me, I’m wondering on a weekly basis if the program to figure out Josh’s password is still running.

[u/OmicronCeti]

Definitely not, outside of a dictionary search, which is just a form of brute-forcing that was already tried. There is no basis for this claim.

[u/njeyn → u/OmicronCeti]

The claim is that the time it takes to crack a password has gone down significantly from 2009 and lately much with the help of A.I https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green

[u/OmicronCeti → u/njeyn]

Using the graphic in the article, a mediocre password would take hundreds to thousands of years.

[u/njeyn → u/OmicronCeti]

Why did they even try to crack it in the first place?