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by codebot 5422 days ago
Funny comic as usual, but the 20 years thing is probably invalid. How long would cracking tr0ub4dor&3 on a 486 take? Also I remember some systems didn't allow pass phrases back then. Windows NT in particular had a max password limit of 14 characters, iirc.
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Faster CPUs don't necessarily mean you get more than 1000 auth requests per second against the web site you're trying to brute force.