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[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That's the main weakness imo.

Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I'm thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not at all. It will lead to easier to type passwords, likely. But that doesn’t mean shorter. This could easily be filled with passwords that are four words long with special characters interspersed.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Which you then have to type out every time. Laziness wins: they will be shorter.

The assumption is that the product is for non-savvy users. They might not even understand what you wrote up there.

Autocorrect can help here, but dictionary words are easily ~~brute-forced~~ guessed. And - more importantly - that hypothetical user would have to come up with that idea in the first place. But people who come up with such ideas usually already use password managers anyhow.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Several dictionary words in series cannot be "easily brute forced."

You're out of you're depth and saying stupid things.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Using special terms wrongly doesn't mean I'm clueless, cryptobro.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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