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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by bArray on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:32AM (#20293479)
Humans are terrible at picking random numbers, it's quite likely many people tried the same thing (more or less).
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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by jopsen on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:47AM (#20293559)
But if the code was set by humans, it just makes finding it even more likely...
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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by bArray on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:03AM (#20304367)
Only if somebody uses a human generated number (as done in this case). If it's genuinely random then it could take humans quite a while.
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