Sounds like you may have a wrongful dismissal case under the disabilities act.. If you have a union rep or pro bono attorney available, it might be worth pursuing for real

Good point.

A series of pass phrases that you can remember yourself is still better than relying on a password manager that can ALSO expose all of your passwords, none of which you remember.

hackers can prioritize English words

Yeah, all hundreds of thousands of them. In combinations that don't make logical sense. Do you have any idea how long that would take?

Even if I limited myself to a 5 word pass phrase from a word list of 5000, there would be 25989619781251000 possible combinations.

Make that list the entirety of the English language and there's no way you'd be able to brute force it before the sun becomes a red giant, let alone during the lifespan of an unhealthy elder millennial 😄

Ella! EH! EH!

I was just answering your arguments and didn't want to let all of that mental work go to waste when I saw the reveal at the very bottom 😄

The main advantage of a password manager is that you can have a different password for each account. Which means in case of a leak you won't be in risk of losing other accounts

Except it's the opposite: if someone gets the master password for your password manager, that's all of them.

And I don't think I want to remember 300 pass phrases with different words.

That's another advantage of the pass phrase over the easily remembered password: repeating an uncrackable passphrase doesn't pose the risk that repeating a guessable password.

You can use RentMauriceHouseHurryNow for all your accounts and they'll all be safer than a billion different strings protected by a single guessable master password.

Especially if you're not in the tiny minority of people who actually knows a Maurice who isn't called The Space Cowboy by some people.

It's still less combinations than just scramble tho

Not in any meaningful way, no. There's what, hundreds of thousands of words in the English language? With no apparent pattern, that's a near-infinite number of possible combinations of 5 or 6 word phrases.

Add that most password crackers would use another kind of attack that presupposes that there's numbers and special characters and you really have redundancy on redundancy.

an algorithm that just combines words would definitely at some point arrive at like "SaltyIceteaMakerBlueAcorn"

Not within your lifespan or even that of humanity.

it's only once you add random letters/numbers/special characters that a dictionary attack stops working.

That's just not true if you don't consider "might theoretically get there in a million years" as "working".

Although this probably doesn't matter as it would likely still take like a century or ten to complete

Exactly. So your entire point is moot. A password or passphrase doesn't need to hold for longer than the existence of the account (or whatever's being protected by it), the user, or the species of the user.

Until you get hit with a dictionary attack.

As I explained to the other one, no dictionary attack will happen upon that exact combination of words any faster than the keyboard mashing preceding it.

Using a COMMON word or a COMMON phrase would leave you vulnerable, sure, but no prediction process is going to happen on the exact combination.

Hell, add a word or two to "SaltyIceteaMaker" and it would make an extremely secure pass phrase. For something without that string in the user id, of course 😁

It wasn't pedantry, it was a (poor) attempt at humor lol

When I get pedantic for real, it's MUCH more annoying and I usually stop myself before hitting send 😁

Yay, it's "Taydgehae" from that great episode of Bad Hasbara! 😁❤️

(Yes, I know he's in more than one, but I started from the beginning and I'm not caught up yet)

That's what some of us (including FAIR) have been saying FOR NINE FUCKING YEARS!

But do the Enlightened Centrists with their cult of civility towards murderers and rapists listen? Of COURSE not! 🤦🤬

Using words in your password can undermine your security aswell

Only if they're predictable words and/or in a predictable order. No dictionary attack is going to guess the exact word combination above or equivalent any faster than the preceding keyboard mashing.

Unnecessarily adding complications only makes the pass phrase harder to remember and thus less effective.

I'm not sure that proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations using cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets was that outrageous..

Pass PHRASES are much better anyway.

Nobody's gonna remember "pyf85ruGmmgæ&Oy_w48euaT0lt" so they'll either write it down, save it to their browser,or use a password manager, either of which makes it less secure.

On the other hand, something simple that doesn't necessarily make sense, say "AlmondsMakeFineGrenades" is difficult for both humans and machines to guess, but easy to remember.

Tl;Dr: an xkcd comic explaining it much better than I just did 😁

Structure/meme format: like with the "dominoes", one seemingly small thing can lead to much bigger things happening

Context: the 1970 book "The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species" popularized the hypothesis of the alpha, beta, and omega wolf, which has birthed all sorts of toxic and stupid bullshit that has harmed many humans, pets (especially dogs), and other animals.

The author, David Mech, has since tried to get the publisher to stop selling his erroneous book and basically dedicated most of his career to educating people on how wrong his most influential work was.

Yeah, because advertising that you used a social murder bill to bluff with makes you sound SUPER sympathetic to the people who would have died if fascists had called your bluff 🙄

I honestly do not know why the Democrats keep bragging about this as if every "bipartisan" bill has merit

Because it's what they do. To the Dem leadership, bipartisanship is the highest achievement in politics, no matter how awful the actual content.

If you could demonstrate bipartisan backing, they'd gladly declare this flag from Community the new national flag of the United States:

In fact, both that flag and the "Human Being" mascot (pictured below, middle) of the school's football team are parodies of the way Dem leadership operates.

Then again, some might argue that sharing the designation with millions of other people makes it SLIGHTLY less prestigious..

That's what the French chef said when he discovered that his Roquefort had been replaced with Gorgonzola!

I'm reading that in the voice of Tim Curry circa Loaded Weapon 1 😁