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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

My password will take 1,278 years to crack....

How about yours?

We keep saying "passwords need to be hard to break" and "never use the same password twice."
I found this site which tells you how long it would take an average hacker to use "brute force" (most common method for cracking passwords) to unlock your account...

Why not give it a try?

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

There's info on ways to create more secure passwords, too.

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