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Re:GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset by TylerE on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:57PM (#11934641)
Technically true perhaps, but from my experience the word selection is always way narrower than that, like usually from maybe the 2000-5000 most common words.

Still a big number, but not astronomically big.

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Re:GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset by Hondor on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:48PM (#11935328)
It's big enough to matter. 2000^5 ~= 60^9 so it's as strong as a 9 random character password which is usually regarded as strong enough, and far better than a typical 1 word with 3 or 4 special characters mixed in.
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