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georgeott on April 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation

Length beats entropy every time. Steve Gibson has covered this before.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

DanBC on April 11, 2012 [–]

Steve Gibson is pretty much clueless. (http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/)

SpinRite was great. Spinrite stopped being any use sometime in the early 90s.

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