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Re:Graphical password vulnerability by no_more_death on Saturday March 30, 2013 @02:21PM (#5466204)
Hmmm, could someone build a text "scrambler" that would intentionally create broken English? I have also noticed that "broken English" is more effective by some measures than ordinary English.

Note also that the broken English here is not the author, but it's Google Translate. The text has been machine translated from Russian. Also interesting that Google Translate is much more effective translating the mathematical portions than the other portions of the text. Another case of what people find hard computers find easy, and vice versa.

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Re:Graphical password vulnerability by 3amOpsGuy on Saturday March 30, 2013 @03:21PM (#5466359)
The fact that broken English is effective for recall, at least in some circumstances, totally fascinates me.

I'd love to capitalise on the idea somehow, just because its so counter intuitive I think. Although i fully appreciate it's not effective enough to replace spaced repetition or other formal techniques.

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Re:Graphical password vulnerability by xenophanes on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:19PM (#5466542)
For a scrambler, translate English text to Russian then back to English.
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