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Comment corecthorsebattery = 19 chars = 26^19 or 10,000^3 (Score 1) 93

I disagree with the recommendations. It really depends how you solve/attack it. correcthorsebattery = 19 chars lowercase = ~26^19 possibilities if cracked lowercase or correcthorsebattery=3 words = correct horse battery Lets assume our password guess rate is 100,000,000 guesses per second. @ 100M guesses/second bruteforcing with lowercase would take = (26^19)pw/(100,000,000 pw/s)= 7,664,672,652,003,620,000 seconds. If you take Google 10k wordlist you can find correct, horse, and battery. 3 words of google 10k = (10,000 words)(10,000 words)(10,000 words) = 1,000,000,000,000 words or guesses @ 100M guesses/second using a contaminator attack would take = (1,000,000,000,000 words)/(100,000,000 pw/s)= 10,000 seconds or about 167 minutes; under 3 hours. Additionally, 1,000,000,000,000 words = ~4 TB. This could be saved to storage or buffered or piped or whatever you call it. :) Again, this is all assuming perfect performance scenarios and a very simple password made of three words.

Comment The Scope of the Special Counsel limited by USDOJ (Score 1) 365

The scope of the Special Counsel's report was limited by the OLC or Executive branch. Mueller is a Republican appointed by Republicans. I feel sorry for him having to put up with all of the bullshit from both sides. If the scope of testimony by Mueller is limited to a redacted version of the original report, then that logically implies omission of facts and evidence. Clearly, this is not the full report. This would make it more challenging to prove malicious and illegal behavior has occurred. I think America and our allies are in serious jeopardy. I think lives are in danger. If true, then by definition, our President is one of the biggest Insider Threats to ALL Americans and our Allies. Well played Putin. Time for the creator to step in and kick your ass now.

Comment The Leap Seconds issue is much bigger (Score 1) 119

The issue with leap seconds is much bigger than just Cloudflare. I’ve found there are difference in at least 4 types of time: Google Time (their unique version of NTP time protocol), International Atomic Time(TAI), Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and multiple NTP protocol servers. Currently there is a difference of 37 seconds between International Atomic Time (TAI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). https://www.timeanddate.com/ti... When I checked the time sync of time.windows.com to time.is I noticed there is a ~33.4 second difference. Last I checked, there are hundreds of NTP severs that have out of sync times https://community.ntppool.org/ It seems a significant amount of the world is out of sync and there is no absolute consensus on what the time should be.

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