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Re:GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset by zo1 on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:59PM (#11934651)
>"The calculation is X^Y, where X is the number of possibilities per element, and Y is the number of elements (letters or words in these examples). So using only only lowercase letters (26) in an 8 character password would be 26^8. It's not factorial because you can reuse characters (e.g., your password could be X92m-sXp/)"

You're absolutely right, not sure why I got ahead of myself with using factorial so incorrectly.

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Re:GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset by umanwizard on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:59PM (#11934903)
You were probably thinking about the fact that picking, in order, 5 elements taken from a set of 1000 elements yields (1000 factorial) / (995 factorial) possible combinations.
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