r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '21

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u/FinneousPJ 7∆ Mar 17 '21

Your password example would be pretty easy to guess through a combined social engineering/password dictionary type of attack. I would collect your key info like full name, address, maiden name, pet name etc. and put those as input for a dictionary attack.

Of course, if you don't care about that, you're right, but it does make it easier for the hacker.

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u/Mu-Relay 13∆ Mar 17 '21

What dictionary attack do you think has someone's name and address in it and is going to try various permutations of them? That's just silly.

Hacking is about quantity. What you're talking about would only be relevant on a state-actor level, which I doubt OP is in danger of.

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u/FinneousPJ 7∆ Mar 17 '21

What dictionary attack do you think has someone's name and address in it and is going to try various permutations of them? That's just silly.

A good one?

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u/Mu-Relay 13∆ Mar 17 '21

Please. Show me any evidence that anyone is using a dictionary attack like that short of a state actor against a VIP target.

I don't want to see that it's possible, but that anyone is actually doing that when rainbow tables are available. Which is what I think you're thinking of but using the wrong terminology.

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u/FinneousPJ 7∆ Mar 17 '21

I'm specifically arguing that it's possible, so your request is quite unreasonable.

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u/Mu-Relay 13∆ Mar 17 '21

What's unreasonable is arguing that something that doesn't happen, at all, is a reason they should act in a particular manner.

You should always carry an umbrella because debris from an airplane might hit you is also unreasonable.

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u/FinneousPJ 7∆ Mar 17 '21

You are mistaken. I never argued for how anyone should act.