You definitely don’t want to be using these

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Wait it’s not? I remember some people in the industry recommend this sort of password albeit with variation of other random words as it’s pretty strong and would take a very long time to crack.

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      4 hours ago

      Indeed, just four impersonal words is a great password. Mix up the capitalization and it’s even better.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      5 hours ago

      If it’s a bunch of words found in any dictionary then with or without character substitution it’ll be easy to crack.

      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It’s not. A dictionary has on the order of ≈100,000 (10^5) words in it. Picking five words entirely at random gives you 10^25 combinations, which is about the complexity of 14 alphanumeric characters. So pretty secure.