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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by Double_a_92 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:05AM (#16808458)
Because calculating a Levenshtein distance is to complicated...
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by suprfnk on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:49AM (#16809208)
Still rather unsafe, right? "Cambridge" would be closer to "Woodbridge" than "Woodbridge Lane".
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by ggg9990 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:57PM (#16817171)
But randomly guessing Cambridge is not that likely. A bit of a pointless exercise though since security questions are dumb.
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