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Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds (phys.org)
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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I get annoyed when websites say something like, ´Using a password of this strength will take a a hacker one million years to brute force.´

No, it’ll take a million years to try every combination and permutation of allowed characters. Chances are your password will be tried much sooner than that.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

When they say such things, the are probably talking about the expected value, where those chances are taken into account, just like the number calculated in this article.