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He never said it was. It could be something like <Base Password><Third letter of URL><Fifth letter of slogan> etc. Just because it's predictable to him does no
by mynameisvlad 11y ago
He never said it was. It could be something like <Base Password><Third letter of URL><Fifth letter of slogan> etc.
Just because it's predictable to him does not mean it's predictable to all. There are ways of keeping predictability while still obscuring it from everyone else.
- Dylan16807 11y agoAssuming you're more clever than whoever is cracking the password is a bad plan.
- tbabb 11y agoThe goal of security is to make defeating the system too difficult to be worth it. As such I'm not advocating security by obscurity, just security by "making the job of defeating all my accounts sufficiently involved to exclude me from a en-masse attack"; by far the biggest risk for cloud accounts.