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by theophrastus 1495 days ago
from the web-page:

    It does not require training data - instead it uses statistical information about the frequencies of the letters and n-grams in the English language.
and from this it should also be noted that it won't apparently be able to extract passwords, as least those which aren't "n-grams in the English language".
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This would be a good argument against the xkcd philosophy towards passwords.
Unless when typing your password you deliberately use different fingers than you would when typing normally