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Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by corin_ on Thursday September 05, 2013 @10:51AM (#6334545)
'Also included in the list: "all of the lights" (yes, spaces are allowed on many sites), "i hate hackers," "allineedislove," "ilovemySister31," "iloveyousomuch," "Philippians4:13," "Philippians4:6-7," and "qeadzcwrsfxv1331." "gonefishing1125" was another password Steube saw appear on his computer screen. Seconds after it was cracked, he noted, "You won't ever find it using brute force."'

If you won't ever find "gonefishing1125" using brute force, how on earth did they find "qeadzcwrstxv1331"?

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Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by barrkel on Thursday September 05, 2013 @11:51AM (#6334891)
Have you looked at the keyboard pattern for qeadzcwrsfxv1331?

I imagine there are a whole bunch of these geometric patterns, and different combos of them are tried.

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