> A plurality of Gawker Media passwords are six characters long A plurality of brute forced Gawker Media passwords are six characters long. Maybe this statisti

> A plurality of Gawker Media passwords are six characters long A plurality of brute forced Gawker Media passwords are six characters long. Maybe this statistic is valid for all 1.5 million passwords, but that's quite a lot of extrapolation. Taking the easiest 10% of passwords to brute force and basing the data off that? They mention this fact on the paragraph prior, and then seem to forget about it: "In both cases, the datasets only include passwords that could be decoded and aren’t necessarily representive [sic] of all users."