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MichaelGG on June 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First 10 Minutes on a Server

But brute forcing any reasonable password or key is so far-fetched as to not be something to even consider.

oofabz on June 16, 2016 [–]

If you can make hundreds of login attempts per second, and you can keep at it for days/weeks/years, you can get through some pretty big password dictionaries with lots of variants (e.g. password/p4ssword/passw0rd/p4ssw0rd/etc.).

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