Again, your not understanding that brute force is not entirely how you think it works. As a former employee of a large tech company. They are much more cunning how they do it these days..
If you wanted to break into an account, would you really start with a and work your way up? Come on. Accounts are broken into all the time and they claimed their passwords were awesome.. Your not an idiot, you just need to do more research on how hackers get in. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote: > > > > > > On 11/10/2015 09:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 11/10/2015 02:00 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote: > >>> I guess from this your assuming that everyones passwords that > >>> have been hacked are god, birthdays and such? > >>> > >> Again: assume that I'm not an idiot, and that I know how to choose > >> a long, random password. It cannot be brute-forced. And if it > >> could, adding an SSH key encrypted with a password of the same > >> length would provide no extra security. > >> > >> > > Are you sure you know how such keys work? An extremely 15 character > > password (Upper case, lower case, numbers, 8 more symbols) gives you > > ~4747561509943000000000000000 combinations > > > And since no one seems to believe me, if you could try a million > passwords a second (over the network!), it would take you about > 75,272,093,955,210 years to try half of those combinations. > > >
