1Password has a blog post I found interesting and actionable. They set a challenge with a monetary prizes to crack account passwords, and discuss results.
https://blog.1password.com/cracking-challenge-update/
Password strength and cracking
Re: Password strength and cracking
That article seems to be based on brute force password cracking, which I thought crooks rarely bother with. They can get many passwords by using known passwords and common human strategies for picking them. If you are so important that they specifically want yours, then this might be a useful guide. If they just want to get into as many accounts as they can do easily, this does not have much relevance.
Since it is a security company, I assume they would have used truly random passwords, so brute force would be the only way to get them. In real life, most people don't create long random passwords if they have to remember them.
Since it is a security company, I assume they would have used truly random passwords, so brute force would be the only way to get them. In real life, most people don't create long random passwords if they have to remember them.
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